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BIBLIOGRAPHY. 
BIBLIOGRAPHY. 
LE BERCEAG DE L’ENSEIGNEMENT VETERINAIRE—CREATION 
ET EVOLUTION DE L’ECOLE NATIONALE VETERINAIRE DE 
LYON—1761-1889—(BIRTH PLAN OF VETERINARY EDUCATION- 
CREATION AND GROWTH OF THE LYONS VETERINARY 
SCHOOL.)—by Dr. S. Arloing, Director. 
This book differs from the generality of newly issued 
works involving or relating to matters of veterinary science,, 
and is so full of interesting material that we cannot resist the 
temptation to recommend it to the attention of our readers. 
It is a work worthy of the repute of the director of that vet¬ 
erinary school which may justly be denominated the fountain 
head of the veterinary science of the world. A glance at its 
contents will satisfy our readers of the correctness of this 
statement. The reader, for instance, will find authentic docu¬ 
ments relating to the birth of Claude Bourgelat, to his family 
and to his first studies. Then he is shown as applying for 
and obtaining the direction of the Academy of Equitation of 
Lyons, writing his works on hippiatry, maintaining inti¬ 
mate relations with all the official authorities of Lyons, 
and impressing them with the necessitv of the realiza¬ 
tion of his favorite project. Mr. Arloing then describes the 
various steps followed in the establishment of the school, the 
legislative acts, the plans and sites of the building, and the 
regulations of the school administration. This is followed 
along step by step, and the moral as well as the financial 
growth of that governmental school are thus traced from its 
creation down to the present time. The author shows, by 
degrees, the indebtedness which the veterinary profession of 
the world ought to be proud to acknowledge to France and 
to the Lvons school for the institution which was thus and 
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then established. In his attempt to do this the author has 
fully succeeded, and he has done well in methodically and 
conscientiously presenting the present generation with the 
history of this birthplace of our profession. It was due to 
Bourgelat, to the Lyons school and to the profession of 
which Mr. Arloing himself is one of the chief ornaments. 
