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Extracts from Foreign Journals. 
We have received the French journals up to the end of the 
year. The Recueil de Medecine Veter inair e Pratique contains 
the Report of the Second Annual Meeting of the Central Society 
of Veterinary Medicine ; the society having held its first meeting 
in December 1846, of which, as no account was given in The 
Veterinarian at the time, we shall, ou the present occasion, 
include a notice in our summary with that of the report for 1847. 
At these annual meetings took place the distribution of prizes and 
medals for questions submitted to the Concours in 1845 and 1846. 
These two meetings have been held in the Hotel de Ville, at 
Paris ; M. Girard, the honorary president on both occasions, 
occupying the chair. At the first, in 1846, his address was sum- 
marily as follows : — 
Feeling highly flattered and honoured at the distinguished 
post the society had, on account of his standing in the profession, 
elevated him to, M. Girard had to congratulate the society, young 
as it was, on the success which had attended their early appeal to 
the profession. Papers had flowed in upon them from all quarters, 
shewing the happy results of their first concours, promising well 
for the future, and proving that the funds placed by government at 
their disposal had been commendably employed. 
Re-UNION it was that constituted their main force. Old mem- 
bers, who had long quitted the veterinary schools, and were now 
spread over the country, some in towns, some in villages, others in 
the different cavalry regiments, were left without any relationship 
or scientific intercourse being kept up between them. It was the 
professional journals which first furnished the means of establish- 
ing an intercourse so much to be desired ; and M. Girard had the 
satisfaction of having been instrumental in setting agoing one of 
the first veterinary periodicals — Le Recueil de Medecine Vet'eri- 
naire; and he was happy to have it in his power to add, that this 
journal had become prosperous, and most widely circulated. 
The establishment of veterinary journals has been followed by 
the successive formation of veterinary societies in many of the 
provinces ; though in the department of the Seine (that in which 
Paris stands) it is only lately such societies have sprung up. 
Soon after its establishment, however, the society of the Seine felt 
sensible that, from its position, it was called on to become a centre 
to its associates at a distance from the capital, to which they might 
refer their scientific and practical deductions; seeing that, al- 
though at Paris matters of practice might not be so prolific as in 
the provinces, yet that experimental and bibliographical researches 
