REPORT ON INTELLIGENCE AND EDUCATION. 
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Veterinary Surgeons that the council have gone vigorously 
to work to improve the educational status of the profession ; 
first by adding a written test to the professional examination, 
which came into operation in May last, and has proved a 
remarkable success. Subsequently the matriculation examin¬ 
ation was placed on the same footing as that required for 
the medical profession, and the four years graded course 
adopted. 
The requirements for the fellowship degree will in future 
be of such a character as to demand scientific attainments of 
no mean order. The Royal College now reports a great 
increase in the number of students, there being one hundred 
and eleven matriculants in the class of 1892-3 against seventy 
in 1891-2. 
In Belgium there has been lately adopted what may be 
called a model system for the education and control of veter¬ 
inary practitioners. 1 am enabled to give an exposition of 
the regulations which have gone into effect in that country 
by means of an article by Monsieur J. Boullaire in the “Annu- 
aire de legislation etrangere, volume 20.” 
REGULATION OF VETERINARY EDUCATION AND PRACTICE 
IN BELGIUM. 
Prior to 1850 any one provided with a license could take 
the title of veterinary surgeon, and treat all diseases of ani¬ 
mals without any guarantee of capacity. The law of 1850 
modified this to the extent of prescribing the examinations 
and granting the diplomas which were required for the prac¬ 
tice of veterinary medicine. The law was unsatisfactory in 
so far that it did not arrange a programme of studies, and 
recognized no institution, either official or private, as having 
a course of organized study and subject to inspection, where 
candidates could qualify themselves for diplomas. The law 
of i860 remedied this by creating a Government school of 
veterinary medicine, of which the programme of studies and 
the subjects for examination lor the grades of candidates, and 
of veterinary physicians, were controlled by the State. The 
law lately put into force has for its object the increase of the 
