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week, Professor Rivett will lecture on anatomy, commencing 
with the skeleton, whilst it will be my duty to lecture on the soft 
structures of the body. For chemistry and botany you will be 
required to attend at the College of Pharmacy, where every facility 
is given for a thorough training in these important subjects. Dr. 
John F. Joyce, whose high scientific attainments are well known, 
will lecture on physiology and histology, both of which you will 
find of great value at a later period of your studies. Your more 
advanced studies at the College of Pharmacy will embrace mate¬ 
ria medica, pharmacy, and toxicology, and at the institute you 
will be instructed in pathology and veterinary medicine and sur¬ 
gery, including the diseases of the horse and other domesticated 
animals. It is probable that at a later period of your course other 
teachers will be added to the staff and the curriculum be made as 
complete as that of any similar institution in the world. 
Professor Rivett addressed a few remarks to the students, 
and moved a vote of thanks to the Chairman, who, in responding, 
expatiated on the incalculable benefits of the college. 
FIFTH INTERNATIONAL VETERINARY CONGRESS. 
APPEAL TO FOREIGN VETERINARIANS. 
Dear Sir: —The Fourth International Veteiinary Congress, 
at its last session in Brussels, in September, 1883, selected Paris 
as the place of meeting of the Fifth Congress, and appointed as 
a Committee of Organization those of its members who are resi¬ 
dents of that city, with a condition providing for the co-operation 
of the members of the Bureau of the Brussels meeting. 
When the time arrived for the consideration of the first basis 
of the fifth meeting it was found that the members from Paris 
who had belonged to the Brussels Congress were only three in 
number: Mr. Houssin, delegate from the Society of Practical 
Veterinary Medicine, and Messrs. Lavalard and Leblanc, delegates 
of the Central Society of Veterinary Medicine. Not willing to 
assume individually the entire responsibility of their commission, 
they decided to refer the subject to the societies of which they 
are representatives. 
