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Modecine Veterinaire. These meetings are held monthly, in 
an apartment of the Hotel de Ville, Paris. It is a plain and 
unpretending room ; yet it is well when a government thus 
promotes the interests of science. And we were further 
convinced that it does so, on observing that many of the 
members present wore the insignia of the Legion of Honour, 
as a reward of their literary and scientific labours. 
We were each presented, on taking our seats, with copies 
of the Bulletin of the Society for the month, and other works 
that had been recently published. There was a liberality in 
this, we confess, we were not prepared for. Again, here is 
something we might profitably copy from our continental 
friends and professional brethren. Why all this apathy with 
us? Why this jealousy? Cannot the members of the 
veterinary profession in London afford to set apart a few 
hours of a day, or an evening, if not the former, once in a 
month, for intercourse on professional matters, and the inter- 
change . of those sentiments which bind man to his fellow ? 
Cannot we sink party feuds and professional rivalries, and 
for once become united in a common cause, that cause being 
the best interests of the profession ? Surely from the adop- 
tion of some such plan as this, the profession, as a body, 
must be benefited ; each of us having something yet to learn, 
while it becomes the duty of every individual member thereof 
to co-operate. And perhaps it would be as well for us to 
recollect that we should not be thus acting for our own 
advantage merely, but equally for those who may come after 
us. It is true that it has been cynically said, “ Man is a 
selfish animal.” Let us then show that there are times, and 
seasons, and circumstances, when we can exercise a philan- 
tropic spirit, and be actuated by those disinterested motives 
which tend to advance the common weal. 
We were still further delighted, after being introduced to 
M. Leblanc, to be informed by him that he had proposed 
to the society that a congress of veterinary surgeons should 
be held in Paris, during the present exhibition, to which 
the members of the profession of other countries should be 
invited. We regret, equally as much as he does, that this 
