SYNOPSIS OF CONTINENTAL VETERINARY JOURNALS. 783 
leave these unchanged (!) Craniology and craniometry 
belong as well to zootechny as to biology. Knowledge of 
the fitness of different animals for various purposes is now 
derived from anatomy ; indeed the transmission of good and 
had qualities is a consequence of the biological laws of here¬ 
dity, atavism, and reversion/’ Thus much for zootechny ; 
in England we are almost where France was in 1838 with 
regard to this science. 
The only veterinary dictionary in the English language 
with which we are acquainted is Boardman’s. Here, too, 
we are fully forty years behind our neighbours, for though 
the work of Hurtrel D’Arboval will always remain classical, 
a New Dictionary of Veterinary Medicine and Hygiene 
is to appear under the auspices of MM. Sanson, Trasbot, 
Nocard, and P. Bouley, whose names are a full guarantee of 
the value of the promised work. Arrangements have been 
made with Asselin and Co., the well-known publishers, for 
bringing out, at least, one volume per annum. 
Since we endeavour in these synopses to give our readers 
as much information as possible of the state of all questions of 
professional interest abroad, we may insert the following notice 
of the condition of veterinary education in Sweden, which we 
obtained from the American Veterinary Review of August, 
1879, and the Veterinary Journal of October, 1879. Its 
source, the Echo Veterinaire, Beige, is not available to us at 
present. 
The first veterinary school in Sweden was founded by 
Hernquist (born in 1726). After passing his examination as 
a doctor in philosophy, at the University of Upsala, Hern¬ 
quist went in 1763 to France, and at Lyons studied veteri¬ 
nary medicine. In 1774 he established the veterinary 
school at Skara (Sweden), and was appointed professor of it 
in 1778, remaining in it until his death, which took place in 
1808. He was a writer and practitioner of merit. One of 
the best of his pupils, S. Norling, took his place in 1814, 
and in 1820, by order of the Swedish Government, he 
organised the veterinary school at Stockholm, and was 
appointed its director, a position which he held as well as 
that of Skara, until his death in 1855. The Skara School 
was a preparatory one for that of Stockholm, where the 
student after a stay of two or three years underwent exami¬ 
nation for the degree of veterinary surgeon. At that time, 
as now, the students came from Sweden, Norway, and 
Finland, and during this period a great number of men 
belonging to each of these countries graduated at the Stock¬ 
holm College. In 1867 it was fixed by Koyal Ordinance, 
