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ing of their army veterinarians, and that is that before being ad¬ 
mitted as an army veterinarian special requirements are demanded 
and special instruction necessary. England takes hers from the 
Veterinary Military School of Aldershot, Germany from her 
Veterinary Military Academy of Berlin, and France selects them 
after a special course of instruction at the Military Cavalry 
School of Saumur. 
I may be here allowed a few lines on Saumur, and I do this 
not because of the subject in consideration, but from the fact that 
it is open to every future veterinary officer of the world. I hear 
that many officers from the American army have been following 
the various courses of studies given at that world-wide-known 
institution and that, indeed, every year numerous officers from 
the armies of the United States, Spain, Roumania, Sweden, etc., 
have been counted mixed among the French officers of the school. 
The School of Application of the Veterinary Service is a de¬ 
partment of the School of Cavalry; the fourteen or fifteen hun¬ 
dred horses which are there in service form a precious and use¬ 
ful material of instruction for the young- veterinarians that began 
his professional military life there. 
The curriculum includes, with equitation and military regula¬ 
tions, lectures of military legislation, external forms of the horse, 
hygiene, on the various breeds of horses, a course of clinical in¬ 
struction. Military pathology and epizootics, horseshoeing, meat 
inspection, ophthalmology, microbiology, metropolitan and colo¬ 
nial topography, etc. The course lasts ten months. 
The faculty attached 'to the Veterinary School of Application 
is composed at present of Veterinary Major G. Jolly, director, 
professor of hygiene, and of four other army veterinarians, all of 
whom are appointed by the Secretary of War. 
The number of the probationary veterinarians (aides veter- 
inaires stagiaires) varies between 25 and 40, according to the de¬ 
mand. Their pay is a little lower than that of second lieutenant. 
They are submitted to strict military discipline. Their uniform 
is similar to that of the second veterinary lieutenant. To be ad¬ 
mitted as aides veterinctries stagiaires at Saumur, the candidate 
