8 SYNOPSIS OF CONTINENTAL VETERINARY JOURNALS. 
such mechanical dilatation of the rima glottidis ? Dr. 
Krishaber says he has found the operation very simple on 
dead animals and equally simple on two animals on 
which he operated shortly before slaughtering. M. Bouley 
recommends this as a matter for experimental investiga¬ 
tion. 
M. Cirotteau , veterinary surgeon of Poitiers, has been 
elected to the Legion of Honour on the occasion of his per¬ 
formance of duties as one of the Judges of the Horse Show in 
connection with the Paris Exhibition. He had other claims 
to this honour, having been several times recommended to 
the Minister of Agriculture by the General Council of the 
Department of Vienne for the great services rendered by him 
when, as chief sanitary officer, he succeeded in arresting the 
cattle plague during the outbreak of 1871. “ Others of our 
confreres deserve a similar recognition of their services during 
the same outbreak, and though their names are on the list 
of proposal for the same award they have not yet received it; 
but this is a debt which cannot remain unpaid.” In the 
same Gazette M. Pasteur is promoted to the rank of ‘ Grand 
Officier.’’ 
M. Laulanie has been appointed to the “ Chair of Anatomy 
of Domesticated Animals, and External Configuration of the 
Horse ” at Toulouse; and M. Nocard has been appointed to 
the recently created “ Chair of Surgical Pathology and of 
Clinical Teaching” at Alfort. We learn from the Brussels 
Annates that, by a royal warrant of 12th August, 1878, the 
veterinary physician. Prosper Dewilde 3 Professor at the 
Military School and at the University of Brussels, has been 
appointed a Chevalier of the Order of Leopold, and also (as 
having been one of the judges at the Paris Exhibition) a 
Chevalier of the Legion of Honour. 
One of the most marked effects of the Congress in Paris 
has been the attempt, which shows every prospect of success, 
to unite all the veterinary societies in France by the appoint¬ 
ment of the Recueil de Medecine Veterinaire as the bulletin 
of the societies, and of M . H. Rossignol, the chief secretary 
of the Congress, as manager of this section of work. In 
the Recueil he says: “ In my post as chief secretary, and to 
act up to the vote of the Congress, c That veterinarians in 
every place be invited to form associations of mutual aid, 
according to the principles of that which exists in the south¬ 
east and east of France, and that as soon as possible all the 
societies put themselves in relation with each other by dele¬ 
gates, who shall fix the price of a moderate subscription, 
uniform throughout France, 5 I have thought right, in a cir- 
