SYNOPSIS OF CONTINENTAL VETERINARY 
JOURNALS. 
By John Henry Steel, Demonstrator of Anatomy at the 
Royal Veterinary College. 
[Continued from p. 699.) 
Summary. — M. Chauveau elected President of the French 
Association for the Advancement of Sciences for 1881. M. 
Bouley nominated as successor to Claude Bernard; M. Gou- 
baux appointed Director of the Alfort Veterinary School. 
Retiring provision for Belgian Veterinary Professors.— 
Honours to Military Veterinarians in France.—Medical 
degrees obtained by Veterinary Teachers.—Two new French 
Veterinary Journals !—Italian Veterinary Congress.—A 
Dictionary of Veterinary Medicine and Hygiene. 
“ On the condition of Veterinary Education in Sweden,” 
from the Echo Vetennaire Beige. 
“ On minor Veterinary Education and instruction in dairy 
farming in Finland and Denmark.” 
In France the leading veterinary surgeons have recently 
been taking up a prominent position in the scientific world 
—awards and honours seem to be the order of the day, and 
they are well deserved, for this is a time of great professional 
activity. “ M. Chauveau, the Director of the Veterinary 
School of Lyons, was elected President for the exceptional 
meeting in Algiers of the French Association in April, 1881. 
The nomination of M. Chauveau took place against the wish 
of the Council of the Society, who had presented as their candi¬ 
date M. Baillon, the author of the Botanical Dictionary. The 
appointment of M. Chauveau is considered as a protest against 
theHaeckelian tendencies of the committee and a revival of the 
old Montpellier vitalist opinions. At all events, it has created 
some sensationthus writes Nature. “ It is not a little 
curious to an onlooker to see how the doctrines of the great 
Cuvier still influence the progress of science in France, and 
how a return wave from that great tide which led to the 
enthusiastic reception of Haeckel in France not long ago, is 
about to land Professor Chauveau in the presidential chair. 
While the countries of Darwin and Goethe are with steady 
but sure progress receiving the grand idea of “ evolution,” 
Lamarck and Geoffrey St. Hilaire seem prophets who have 
no honour in their own country. Apart from these views, 
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