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HISTORY OF VETERINARY SCIENCE. 
of every thing that could in any way tend to the progress of the 
sciences which they were designed to teach. The anatomy of 
every animal known was to be studied, and preparations out of 
each were to be made, and deposited in the museum by the side of 
those already therein. The professor of chemistry’s labours were 
especially to be directed to the analysis of the animal kingdom; 
and, lastly, the plans of the professor of rural economy were to 
comprise the education, propagation, and means of producing new 
species of animals; embracing, too, the study of provenders and 
such vegetable productions as were available as food for domestic 
animals. And each of the professorial chairs was to have at com¬ 
mand every means of experimentation and practical demonstration 
required to illustrate their instructions. 
This plan of Colonne’s was actually carried into execution. 
Vast buildings were erected upon the Alfort estate for the re¬ 
ception of the chemical laboratory, the menagerie, and animals 
for experimentation. 
Before these were finished even, were lodged wfithin the school 
magnificent flocks of sheep of the Spanish breed, and cows from 
Switzerland, Bremen, Normandy, and Flanders. 
Deer, bears, monkeys, jackalls and kangaroos, were likewise 
assembled at Alfort to inhabit the menagerie the moment it should 
be finished. 
And, lastly, that the department of rural economy might be as 
complete as it could be made, the minister attached the farm of 
Maisons-Ville, which was close to the school, along with fifty 
acres (hectares) of land belonging to it. 
And that nothing might be wanting to the success of this vast 
project, Calonne, in putting it into execution, called to his aid the 
learned men from whom he had had it suggested to him. Yicq 
d’Azyr took charge of the anatomical chair; Daubenton, Brous- 
sonet’s assistant, of that of rural economy; and Fourcroy of the 
chair of chemistry and physics. 
During the while nothing was neglected that tended to the per¬ 
fection of veterinary medicine properly so called. 
The pupils, under the guidance of their director Chabert, con¬ 
tinued their investigations into the epizootics of the day, whose 
study, then altogether new, gives still to the clinical medicine of 
that day so high a character in point of general utility. 
With such means and such men, veterinary science had like to 
have taken a rapid flight, and to have risen all at once in public 
estimation to that rank assigned it as well by its utility and by its 
social importance. 
Unfortunately, Calonne did not continue in office long enough to 
see the establishment of that of which he was the founder, the 
