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SOCIETY MEETINGS. 
continental, by way of a consensus of views in support of the 
theory of the identity of human and animal influenza, under a 
single denomination as one disease. 
The book is ably written, printed from fair, legible type, 
and will afford interesting reading for veterinarians. 
LA R. SCUOLA 8UPERI0RE DI MEDICINE VETERINARIA DI 
MILANO nel suo primo centennio 1791-1891.—(The Royal Superior 
School of Yeterinary Medicine of Milan). 
We have been favored with a copy of this great book, a 
work designed to enlighten the world in respect to the his¬ 
tory of this royal veterinary institution from its origin to 
the present time. The material gathered in the 258 pages 
which compose the volume has been collected by the 
worthy director of the school, N. Lanzillotti Buonsanti, so 
well known to the veterinary scientific world through the 
numerous and able writings he has published, as well as by 
his contributions to the columns of the Clinica Vetennaire. 
We have derived great pleasure from the reading of the 
present work, as well as from “ looking at the pictures ” which 
illustrate the text, and which show the progressive prosperity 
of the school, with the various accretions, year by year, 
through which it has reached its present condition. And 
we have inwardly queried, will the day ever come when a 
similar history can be written of our veterinary institutions, 
and wondered whether America, seventy-five years hence, 
will be able to boast, as old Europe does now, of her veterin¬ 
ary colleges. 
SOCIETY MEETINGS. 
BANQUET OF THE UNITED STATES YETERINARY MEDICAL ASSO¬ 
CIATION AT WASHINGTON MEETING. 
To the banquet-room at 8 p.m. the assemblage to the 
number of fifty wended their way. The table, describing a \ 
in shape, covered with running vines and dotted with flowers, 
was further embellished with a number of beautiful designs. At 
