270 VETERINARY SCHOOL OF TOULOUSE. 
with agriculturists, in cases of every kind, for the comfort and 
health of the companions of their travels, can they not impart to 
their employers some portion of that knowledge of agriculture 
which they have acquired in this establishment ? Or supposing, 
contrary to all probability, that this knowledge would have been 
cast away on the mere agriculturist, the young men who press in 
crowds to this beautiful city, whether to acquire the necessary 
information for the exercise of a liberal profession, or whether it 
be to complete their education, would find in the knowledge of 
rural economy, and the accessory sciences, a complement of in¬ 
struction so much the more precious, as it would engage many 
among them to carry again to the pursuits of agriculture the be¬ 
nefits which they have here received ; and they would find, in the 
cultivation of their patrimony, the riches and the consideration, 
the independence and the habits of a citizen useful to the state, 
and useful to himself. 
“ Accustomed to calculate on the generous intentions of the first 
magistrate of this department, and the intelligence and benevo¬ 
lence which have gained him the esteem and veneration of those 
who live under his administration, we have encouraged the hope 
that he will continue to bestow his patronage upon us ; and the 
minister of commerce, who has given such striking proofs of his 
solicitude for the success of our school, in completing its effec¬ 
tiveness by six successive nominations in the course of one year, 
has obtained by this circumstance new titles to our gratitude.” 
The Editor of the Journal whence we are extracting this ac¬ 
count goes on to say that, “ Besides that to which M. Moiroud 
alludes, the council-general has, in the last session, voted funds 
for the establishment of a chair of agriculture in Toulouse ; and, 
if the public authority had need of encouragement in the per¬ 
formance of this patriotic act, it would find it in the results 
already obtained.” 
The speech of M. Bernard, one of the professors of the school, 
proved that those who directed the studies of this establishment 
are no strangers to the higher branches of science ; and, although 
treating on matters of deep physiological research, little known to 
the majority of the public, his discourse was listened to with 
marked attention. 
In the printed account of the labours of the school during the 
year 1833, which we have hitherto been unable to procure, the 
Editors of the Journal say, that they remarked many curious facts 
and interesting observations, and which convinced them that the 
professors discharge the duties of their respective chairs with 
zeal and devotion. Many of them have prepared or are pre¬ 
paring anatomical and pathological works. 
M. Rodet, professor of the different branches of natural 
