652 THE FRENCH CENTRAL SCHOOL OF AGRICULTURE. 
in, he was consigned to the care of a pupil, who, ’acting under the 
direction of the Clinical Professor, was responsible for the proper 
management of the case. There is something resembling this at 
the London Veterinary College, and that pupil is wise who will 
throw himself into the case that is committed to him, fully 
discharge the manual duties that are required of him, and keep 
a lengthened and faithful record of the nature, and management, 
and result of the affair. If these temporary clinical officers were 
more numerous, and scattered over different parts of the hospital, 
still greater good might be effected. 
The case which was recorded was one of Anasarca, and a fear- 
ful case it was. Others connected with the same disease are 
promised. 
To this succeeds a report of the distribution of prizes to vete- 
rinary surgeons who transmit any valuable communications to 
the Royal and Central School of Agriculture. Where, with the 
exception of the bequest of Professor Coleman, and the prizes 
awarded to meritorious pupils by the Association of Veterinary 
Surgeons, and also the prizes distributed by the Scottish Pro- 
fessor to his pupils, is there any thing worth contending for in 
either country ? 
I will not repeat the long and noble list of communications 
bearing on our art in France, and offered to the consideration of 
the members of our own body, and of agriculturists generally ; but 
I will express the ardent w'ish of the greater part of our profession 
for the hastening of that period when the veterinary surgeon and 
the agriculturist will be better known to and valued by each 
other, and that the strange and injurious alienation which seems 
for the present so absurdly to subsist between some of them shall 
completely and for ever cease. Connected as the waiter of this 
article has so long been with, by his profession, his studies, his 
writings, and his intimate knowledge of and perfect acquaintance 
with the habits, the wants, the interests, and the claims of both, 
he trusts that the time is not far distant when the unison which 
every heart must w'ish will take place between the agriculturist 
and the veterinarian. 
Another subject, of a different nature, yet which concerns the 
interests of the fanner, is mooted in this number of The Vete- 
