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Let all due praise be rendered to M. Hamont, who has so success¬ 
fully follow'ed out the plans of Bourgelat in a foreign country. 
All honour to him who has devoted a life of labour and of con¬ 
tinual sacrifice to the conferring of the benefits of civilization on 
an ignorant and barbarous country. Well has he deserved the 
esteem of his fellow citizens, and the especial gratitude of his 
veterinary brethren. 
Recueil de MM. V-et., Nov. 1837, 
Extract from the Compte Rendu of the Labours of 
THE Royal Veterinary School of Alfort, du ri no 
THE scholastic Year 1836-7. 
Chair of Anatomy. Professor M. Rigot. 
The examinations which we have this year made of the ani¬ 
mals sacrificed for the instruction of the pupils have had re¬ 
ference, as heretofore, either to normal or pathological anatomy. 
Among the former, we may select those that have had for their 
object the structure of the pituitary membrane of the horse, and 
of which the following are the results:— 
1. That the external layer of this membrane appears to be 
entirely constituted of a very thin net-work of lymphatic vessels, 
into which mercury may be easily injected, if a proper syringe 
and tube is used. 
2. That these vessels appear to be of equal bulk in every part 
of the pituitary membrane. 
3. That when the injection is too forcibly made, the mercury 
appears in exceedingly small globules on the free surface of the 
membrane, and passes at the same time into the subjacent venous 
sinuses. 
The new researches which we propose to make respecting 
the anatomy of the tissues, will discover whether these ves¬ 
sels communicate directly with the submucous veins, or whether 
they abut on certain special confluent branches, which escaped 
our first investigations. 
From the time that we were enabled to announce that there 
could no longer exist any doubt as to the muscular structure of the 
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