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sion were present and participated in the observances. A 
large tribune had been erected in front of the statue, and 
furnished seats for numerous foreign guests and members of 
the Congress, with their wives. The assembly was addressed 
by the Minister of Agriculture, and by Messrs. Chauveau, 
Leblanc, Tisseraud, Nocard and Degive, in honor of their 
departed colaborateur, and eulogized the memory of the 
great veterinarian, who received ample, but not unmerited 
recognition in the presence of the admirable “counterfeit 
presentment ” so correctly and so beautifully wrought by the 
artistic hand of the sculptor, Mr. Allouard, who received on 
that occasion a well deserved reward of his genius and skill 
in the decoration of the Legion of Honor. 
The event of the last day of the Congress was a banquet, 
tendered by the French veterinarians to their foreign col¬ 
leagues. The feast was spread on the first floor of the Eiffel 
Tower, and a more fraternal and congenial interchange than 
this has perhaps never been enjoyed on a similar occasion. 
The Veterinary Profession at the Paris Exhibition. 
—Among the more remarkable objects exhibited at the French 
Exposition are the collections of the French veterinary schools. 
It is a most striking testimony of their advance in all that 
relates to the progress of veterinary science, skill and accom¬ 
plishment. The three schools are all well represented, and 
there are no deficiencies, except possibly in the contributions 
from Toulouse, which by reason of its greater distance from 
Paris was at somewhat of a disadvantage, and has scarcely 
done itself justice, while Alfort was simply grand. 
This exhibition of veterinarian progress was located in the 
centre of the Agricultural Galleries, a position which renders 
more evident the existence of a hiatus of some importance in 
the veterinary sections, occasioned by the absence of all that 
relates to botany, vegetable physiology and materia medica. 
By contrast, however, another branch of veterinary science 
was rather oppressively demonstrated. VVe refer to the mass 
and the number of shoes taken from the museums of the 
schools, or from private collections, and which were certainly 
redundantly displayed. But, with these exceptions, veterinar- 
