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decide the following, which out here is a disputed point:—A 
lieutenant of two and a half years’ standing, and I, a veteri¬ 
nary surgeon of six years’, were members of a board the 
other day. Which was the senior?—and who should have 
voted first, and signed last ? The president ruled that I was 
the junior. 
I am, dear Sirs, 
Yours very truly, 
A Subscriber. 
To the 'Editors of * The Veterinarian .’ 
[We hope these questions will be answered by the Vete¬ 
rinary Surgeon-General, or other proper authority.] 
Facts and Observations. 
THE BITE OF RABID ANIMALS NOT ALWAYS FOLLOWED 
BY HYDROPHOBIA. 
A fact well worthy of notice is mentioned in the last annual 
statistics furnished by the General Hospital of Vienna. It 
would appear that out of 115 persons bitten by animals 
whose rabid state was clearly made out, only 25 died with 
symptoms of hydrophobia. As, however, the actual and pre¬ 
cise length of the period of incubation in rabies is not 
known, these figures cannot be completely relied upon; 
but it is highly useful to note the comparatively small pro¬ 
portion of deaths which occurred after the well-ascertained 
inoculation with the poison.— Lancet. 
EXPERIMENTS ON HORNED CATTLE. 
M. Baudemont, a gentleman who has made the rearing 
of cattle his peculiar study, recently communicated a paper 
to the Academy of Sciences, on the relation which exists 
between the development of the thorax and the general con¬ 
dition of the animal. In France, England, and Germany, 
various opinions have been expressed, which are all reducible 
to the following proposition :—The development of the 
thoracic region affords the measure of the volume of the 
lungs; with these stand connected, like cause and effect, 
the functional energy of the animal, the activity of its respi¬ 
ration, the richness of its blood, its power of assimilation, 
