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appointed ; he will show to the congress the actual state of 
the question placed in his hands ; and will, if the case 
allows, submit such suggestions as he considers likely to be 
useful. In order to reduce the expenses of attendance the 
railway companies have consented to allow veterinarians a 
reduction of 80 per cent, of the usual fares. 
The hist number of the second new journal is now before 
us. The Journal de Medecine Veterinaire Pratique et de 
Zooteclmie is to appear monthly under the editorship of 
members of three professions : M. J. Pelletan, M.D.; M. 
Gaston Percheron; and M. C. Montreuil, Pharmaceutical 
Chemist, Medallist, and Ex-interne of the Hospitals of 
Paris. M. Percheron has been mentioned by us in a pre¬ 
vious synopsis as author of a work on the parrot, and we 
now see he has in the press a “ Complete Treatise on Canine 
Pathology.” For the aims and scope of the journal we 
cannot do better than refer to the first page, the commence¬ 
ment of the Chronique. “ The journal which we present to 
our readers is, we hasten to inform them, entirely independent. 
That it may not give the lie to its title, Journal of Practical 
Veterinary Medicine, it will readily receive from every 
source, and of any scientific or professional character, all 
communications, observations, &c., which may be addressed 
to it. We know besides, too well, especially from a recent 
case, how sometimes the so-called official journals consign to 
the waste-paper basket the manuscript of the humble prac¬ 
titioner. Besides this it will, to fulfil its secondary title. 
Review of French and foreign work, while it places before its 
readers the most interesting articles published in France 
by the veterinary press, also have the honour to produce 
the original work of learned foreign practitioners, who have 
promised their aid. For though France is the cradle of the 
veterinarian, that is no reason for neglecting, as do most of 
our publications, that which passes around us in the world. 
Such is our programme. We might give many variations 
on the same theme, but that would be to fall into the ways 
of a publication somewhat older than ours, which gives 
itself the pleasure of a professsion of faith which still lasts, 
but we have too much respect for our readers and for our¬ 
selves to follow this example.” We see, then, that the 
journal originates in pique at rejection of a paper forwarded 
to some established journal, and we can hardly help thinking 
that the charge of neglect of foreign work by official journals 
is not wholly allowable, since we recently reproduced from 
a French source reviews of progress in Italy and in Ger¬ 
many \ and we have now a review of Belgian veterinary 
