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justly least, it should be a constant and important relation to 
ethics. 
In so far as veterinary science is related to human health it 
naturally follows the historical antipathy of human medicine to 
public display of its achievements, because probably of the 
practical impossibility of making such exhibit without permit¬ 
ting the insinuation of some form of quackery or of apparently 
sanctioning in the public mind charlatanism, but in its relation 
to economics, when national, and to ethics there is certainly 
scant reason to hesitate making properly designed exhibits. 
We divide, naturally, veterinary science into live-stock, 
husbandry and animal pathology, the former of which having 
already been well recorded by the popular press, we need 
mainly consider the latter, which in this instance proved cer¬ 
tainly of far the less general interest. In the World’s Colum¬ 
bian Exposition just closed at Chicago, Ill., the most interesting 
probably of all exhibits to the veterinarian were those of educa¬ 
tional institutions devoted to veterinary science, and among 
these, chief and almost alone stood the exhibits made by the 
national veterinary schools of France. These were displayed 
in the French section of the agricultural building and were 
quite elaborate and instructive, showing with great emphasis the 
importance which the government of France attaches to its 
animal industries and its determination to afford the highest 
possible education to those in whose hands the health and 
quality of animals is so largely intrusted. More than one third 
of the entire area given to French agriculture was devoted to 
the exhibits of these two great schools. The plans of exhibit 
were practically parallel in case of each school. Each showed 
thirty or more grand photographs illustrative of buildings, 
grounds, apparatus, and, where possible, active work in progress. 
The photographs exhibited birds-eye views of the grounds of 
the Alfort and Lyons colleges, showing them to be commod¬ 
ious, convenient and beautiful, in marked contrast to the 
average veterinary institution of our country. But in France 
the government recognizes in veterinary science, whether viewed 
