780 SYNOPSIS OP CONTINENTAL VETERINARY JOURNALS. 
and Commerce and also the Minister of the Interior will also 
be represented by special delegates. The questions to he 
brought forward for discussion are divided into two groups, 
and may be thus given in summary. 
I. Veterinary Instruction. —(1.) Propositions concerning 
admission into veterinary schools. (£.) Number and organi¬ 
sation of the State Veterinary Schools, and organisation of 
unofficial schools. (8.) Affiliation of veterinary schools to 
first-class universities, or to other high-class university in¬ 
stitutions. (4.) Decision of the number of professors and 
assistants at the veterinary schools, with the distribution of 
the various subjects among the different chairs. (5.) The 
necessity of giving more extension to the instruction in 
descriptive and topographical anatomy, and of separating its 
instruction from that of physiology. (6.) Means of render¬ 
ing veterinary instruction more practical at the different 
schools. (7.) Formation at all veterinary schools of a 
travelling clinical course of instruction in matters concern¬ 
ing the ox, sheep, pig, &c. (8.) Formation of special chair 
for instruction in meat inspection. (9.) Institution of the 
post of Inspector of Italian veterinary schools. (10.) Bien¬ 
nial nomination of the director for each school- (11.) Im¬ 
provement of the position of the teaching staff. (12.) 
Organisation of an extern-clinic or poly clinique, taking into 
consideration the requirements of the schools and of the 
public. (18.) Administration of veterinary schools. (14.) 
The course of zootechny at the schools, and the prominence 
to be given to it. 
II. Professional Questions. —(1.) Necessity for prevention 
of veterinary practice by nonqualified persons. (2.) Obliga¬ 
tory institution of veterinary delegations or societies in all 
Italy. (8.) Organisation of veterinary service in relation to 
slaughterhouses of large towns, and determination of the 
best means of bringing about meat inspection in every 
commune in the kingdom. (4.) The necessity of formula¬ 
ting the rules which ought to guide veterinary meat inspec¬ 
tors throughout Italy in the appreciation of the anatomo- 
pathological lesions w r hich ought to exclude butchers’ meat 
from consumption as food. (5.) Organisation of the 
veterinary service in Italy. (6.) Law regulating the ques¬ 
tions of “ soundness and unsoundness/’ and other questions 
relating to the sale of domesticated animals. (7.) Forma¬ 
tion of a bureau of mutual aid and protection for all 
veterinarians. (8.) Necessity of fixing a veterinary pharma¬ 
ceutical tariff for all Italy. 
For each of these questions a special reporter has been 
