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FIFTH INTERNATIONAL VETERINARY CONGRESS 
Besides Mr. Chauveau, who by virtue of his official position 
was naturally looked to to take the place of our regretted Pro¬ 
fessor Bouley, this committee may now be announced as com¬ 
posed of Messrs. Benjamin, Lavalard, Leblanc and Weber, dele¬ 
gates of the Central Society of Veterinary Medicine, Messrs. 
Butel, Houssin, Remand and Rossignol, delegates of the Practi¬ 
cal Veterinary Society, Messrs. Nocard and Trasbot, delegates of 
the Alfort School, and Messrs. Capeau and Delarnoth, delegates 
of the Secretary of War. 
You will thus perceive that the constitution of this committee 
is strictly in accordance with the design expressed by the Fourth 
Congress, all the members named being residents of Paris or its 
suburbs. 
The Brussels Congress had decided that the next meeting 
should take place within five years, that is, at the latest, in 1888. 
Considering, however, that the international exhibition of 1889 
will certainly attract large numbers of French and foreign veter¬ 
inarians to this city, and that this fact will largely increase the 
importance and the dignity of the Congress, the Organizing Com¬ 
mittee has by a unanimous vote agreed that the Fifth Congress 
should not take place before September, 1889. This month has 
been selected because it is a time of the year when professional 
duties are the least pressing, and the professors of the veterinary 
schools can take longer leave of absence, and also because it is at 
that time that the monument to be consecrated to the memory of 
H. Bouley is to be erected and dedicated. No occasion could be 
more favorable for giving to this important ceremony all the 
eclat and interest it deserves, and thus to pay well deserved 
homage to the man who has done so much for his profession, and 
whose life and works will never cease to reflect honor upon its 
history. 
We, therefore, come to ask you to lend your co-operation to 
our efforts. It will be doubly valuable now, because it will assure 
us of your assistance in the selection of the important questions 
which will be discussed by the Congress, and also because it will 
certainly be influential in inducing the adhesion of others with 
yourself. 
