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fessional annals. The three veterinary schools of France, with 
nearly all the French veterinary societies, and the veterinary col¬ 
leges of Budapest, Glasgow, Bruxelles, U trecht, and even veter¬ 
inarians from tiie United States, were counted amongst the ad¬ 
herent members of this grand reunion of comparative patholo¬ 
gists—a fact so neatly and appropriately acknowledged by Prof. 
Verneuil in the following words, which we quote from his 
discourse of inauguration. Said Dr. V.: 
“ Comparative pathology, then, is a common field which you 
have seen cultivated in the last few years with so much talent by 
Bouley and Vulpian, and however it is to-day, certainly, the first 
time, that physicians and veterinarians come together, no longer 
separately but in large cohorts, to unite their efforts in studying 
one of the too common affections which has the fatal power to 
decimate as well man and his servants and to transmit itself 
without mercy from one to the other.” 
While waiting the receipt of the various papers which we are 
expecting from the seat of the congress, we may improve the oc¬ 
casion by responding to the Doctor and indulging in our own 
expressions of gratification that at length veterinarians and med¬ 
ical men have combined their forces with a mutual purpose on a 
common battle-field, and that we may now safely anticipate in our 
own land the recognition and position we may justly claim. 
The nomination of Professor Chauveau, the eminent physiolo¬ 
gist and anatomist, to the presidency of the organization, is not a 
specially remarkable circumstance, but may be accounted to be a 
simple, well-merited honor, due to the man and scientist. But 
the choice of Professor Chauveau, the veterinarian, the Inspector 
of French Veterinary Schools, to the post of honor should be 
proudly acknowledged for the compliment which it involves for 
the entire veterinary fraternity, albeit the selection might well 
be wholly due, at another time, to the personality of the man 
himself, without reference to accessory circumstances. 
The veterinary fraternity in France are especially entitled to 
congratulate themselves upon this recognition of one who so fitly 
and well represents their standing and character. 
That the events now recorded are the natural and incidental 
