Professor Paquin's Letter. —A long letter from Professor 
Paquin, of Missouri, is printed in the present number of the 
Review. In the first part the Doctor treats the subject of hy¬ 
drophobia, and refers to a case in respect to which he had kindly 
asked our opinion, and which we will at a future time utilize in 
order to answer a question put to the public at large relating to 
the establishment of a Pasteur Institute in this country. 
The second part of Professor Paquin’s letter is more import¬ 
ant, and has in view the correction of an error which appeared 
in a former number of the Review. We gladly correct our er¬ 
roneous statement, and take pleasure in knowing and showing 
that veterinary medicine is not, after all, held in such low public 
or governmental estimation in Missouri as to be so entirely ig¬ 
nored that the services of veterinarians are declined on the 
pretext of want of funds. 
According to the letter of Dr. Paquin, Missouri has shown 
herself far in advance of many of the other and older States of 
the Union which lay claim to a more advanced civilization. A 
State which makes appropriations as liberally as the Professor re¬ 
ports, certainly betrays no mean appreciation of the value of the 
services of veterinarians and of the importance of the place they 
fill among the useful members of the body politic as sanitarians 
and guardians of the welfare of the commonwealth. 
Director Nocard of the Alfort School. —Our French 
exchanges bring us intelligence of the retirement of Mr. Armand 
Goubeaux from the General Direction of the Alfort Veterinary 
School, and the nomination of Professor Nocard as his successor. 
To be called, at the age of (about) 38, to fill a position which 
has been occupied by the Renaults, the Magnes and the Bouleys 
of the past, men who were already well advanced in years when 
called to the onerous duties of the place, is an acknowledgment 
of the most emphatic kind of the consideration which Professor 
Nocard has won from his contemporaries. 
Our intercourse with Dr. Nocard has not been very familiar 
or frequent, but a long personal acquaintance was not necessary 
to beget a high appreciation of the man with whose writings we 
were, with a multitude of others, familiar. And in witnessing 
