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W. L. WILLIAMS. 
It would have been out of keeping if the Lyons and Alfort 
schools failed to exhibit, along with what we have already 
mentioned, in some degree, the recorded achievements of its 
illustrious faculty. Accordingly, we noted the two works by 
Prof. Trasbot, “General Pathology” and “Special Pathology”; 
the great work of Nocard, “Contagious Diseases” and the 
“Dictionary of Veterinary Medicine, Surgery and Hygiene,” by 
Reynal and the illustrious Bouley. The names of Chauveau, 
whose “Comparative Anatomy of Domesticated Animals” stands 
peerless; Goubeaux and Barrier, by their “Exterior of the 
Horse,” and Saint Cyr and Violet, “Veterinary Obstetrics,” are 
all too well known by their works to need comment, and our 
current veterinary literature constantly teems with valuable 
observations made by the long list of teachers connected with 
these two great schools. 
Why should they not be great? A pupil who would not 
become an enthusiast under the direction of such men must be 
classed as of very inferior degree. 
Were we to judge American veterinary schools by the stand¬ 
ard of valuable professional literature produced by members of 
their faculties, it would certainly be hard on the vast majority 
of them. And, yet, it has been well said by a very prominent 
educator*: “No second-hand man was ever a great teacher, 
and I much doubt if any real great investigator was ever a poor 
teacher.” 
The University of Illinois made a small exhibit of skeletons, 
models, pathological specimens, etc., illustrative of their teach¬ 
ing in veterinary science in connection with agriculture, but the 
exhibit lacked cohesion and was not suggestive of so logical 
and thorough teaching of this very important subject as the 
value of live stock interests in Illinois would warrant, nor as 
probably attains in the university. 
The other agricultural colleges of the United States re¬ 
mained practically silent on this, one of the most important of 
* Dr. D. S. Jordan, President Leland Stanford Junior University —The Forum . 
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