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OBITUARY—CORRESBO NDENCE. 
OBITUARY. 
Etienne Desire Edouard Chambon, graduated at Alfort, 
died recently in Jersey City, where he had been practicing for a 
number of years. 
Born in France, Dr. Chambon entered the School of Alfort 
in 1865, and during his studies received a first prize at the end of 
each year He graduated in 1860, and after remaining a few 
years in Paris, removed to America. 
CORRESPONDENCE. 
VETERINARY SCHOOL OF BERLIN, A HIGH SCHOOL. 
Dear Sir : ' October, 15, 1887. 
I read in the October number of the “American Veterinary 
Review ” under the rubric : Grand example from America fol¬ 
lowed in Europe; the elevation, by imperial decree, of the Veter¬ 
inary School, at Berlin, to the rank of University—and the re¬ 
porter in conclusive viewing, speaks of this fact as—highly flat¬ 
tering of the American view of the estimation to which veterin¬ 
ary science is entitled to, the Imperial Government of Germany 
has merely followed an established American precedent, etc. 
I beg to state that this a great mistake. Long before America 
has had universities of European character, there have been fac¬ 
ulties for veterinary science at several German universities, viz :■ 
Gdttinger, Giessen, etc., and the writer has.been a veterinary, 
student and-—civis academicus—-of the university at Geissen with 
full academic privileges. 
I believe the mistaken is a faulty translation. Firstly, a uni¬ 
versity can logically be only a community of all sciences; and 
secondly, the German Imperial decree say: Hochschule—-high 
school. There is, indeed, a great difference in the definition of a 
German and American high school, but in Germany the veterin¬ 
ary school is raised by virtue of this title to the highest dignity. 
Properly speaking every possible way in the studies at the 
German veterinary schools has anciently been equal to academic 
forms and the new mode is a mere advantage to the administra¬ 
tion of those institutes, than anything else. Nevertheless the 
veterinary profession of Germany is yet arrived at the highest 
pitch of honor You would greatly oblige me by publishing this 
explication. v Very-truly, 
O. Sohw artzkopff, V.M.D., U. S. Army. 
