516 ROYAL AND CENTRAL SOCIETY OF AGRICULT CJUE. 
The author gives a detailed description of all the veterinary in- 
stitutions of Austria, Prussia, Bavaria, Saxony, Wurtemberg, the 
two Hessias, and the duchies of Baden, Nassau, and Hanover, 
under their respective titles. He speaks also of the medical in- 
stitutions of each of these places, and treats his subject as a man 
who perfectly understands it, and who derives his information 
from the purest sources. He commences each article by giving a 
general account of the medical organization ; he then goes on to 
consider the veterinary portions of the corps, and to point out the 
links which bind it to, and keep it under the control of, the me- 
dical body. He describes, in the first place, the established dis- 
tinction between the pupils that are admitted, the duration of the 
sessions of study, and the classification of the students according 
to the number and nature of the courses which they have at- 
tended. He likewise narrates all that concerns civil veterinary 
surgeons; the rank which they occupy, the privileges which they 
enjoy, the functions which they perform, the obligations which 
are imposed on them, the appointments which they receive in 
those states where they are employed by government — all are suc- 
cessively pointed out ; and he concludes by a similar investiga- 
tion of the position and duties of military veterinary surgeons, 
and, when necessary, refers to the code of law by which these mat- 
ters are regulated. This paper is terminated by a table of the 
medical tax imposed upon veterinary surgeons in the duchies of 
Baden, Hessia, and Nassau, and in the city ofWurtemberg. 
This manuscript is very well written. The compilation of the 
matter contained in it must have required long and diligent re- 
search, which could only have been successfully undertaken by a 
person well acquainted with the German language. The mate- 
rials of which it, is composed are arranged in a simple and lucid 
manner. His essay is a valuable acquisition to the annals of 
science. 
Such, gentlemen, continues the reporter, are the various 
works which it has been our duty to peruse and give our opinion 
respecting. Your commissioners have attentively read them all, 
and, after having deliberated on each of them, have the honour of 
recommending to you that the following rewards be granted : — 
1. Honourable mention to M. Raynal. 
2. Silver medals to MM. Berger, Eleouet, and Loiset. 
3. Copies of the Theatre of Agriculture, by Oliver Series, to 
M. Drouard, and the author of the work on the German Veteri- 
nary Institutions (M. Imlin). 
4. A gold medal, with the head of Oliver de Series, to M. Pepin, 
and the author of the paper on the medicinal properties of the 
waters of Bourbonne les Bains (M. Mariot). 
Recueil de Mtdtcine Vtterinaire , July 1841, p. 428. 
