SYNOPSIS OF CONTINENTAL VETERINARY JOURNALS. 785 
(about £30,000) was allowed for another school in Stock¬ 
holm, which will he finished in 1880. 
We were honoured not very long ago by a visit of Pro¬ 
fessor Lindquist (whose name is misprinted in the American 
version) to the Royal Veterinary College. He informs us 
that foreign works of science are principally used in the 
Swedish Schools, there not being a large enough reading 
professional public to encourage native enterprise in this 
direction. The well known advanced condition of general 
education in Norway and Sweden necessitates some such 
measure as requisition of a University “ Diploma in letters,” 
but we must remember that universities and general educa¬ 
tion abroad being under the direct control of Government, 
the higher course of instruction for which Diplomas are 
granted, whether in arts or sciences, are by no means equiv¬ 
alent to our University degrees. Thus the certificate of 
general education required prior to commencement of 
medical studies in France, is one of Bachelor of Science 
from a French or of Matriculation from an English Univer¬ 
sity. The various teachers seem to have a great deal more 
work than we would be inclined to consider compatible with 
thoroughness ; their salaries, too, do not seem very large, but 
allowance must be made for the difference between the value 
of money in England and Sweden. The same remark 
applies to the military appointments; our Army Veterinary 
Department happily has an independent existence, and does 
not embrace non-commissioned officers. From the cata¬ 
logue of the dairy produce of Finland exhibited at the Inter¬ 
national Agricultural Exhibition at Kilburn, 1879, we learn 
that this country has eight agricultural schools, besides an 
agricultural college at Mustiala. At the schools the prin¬ 
ciples of breeding and rearing, treatment and feeding of 
domestic animals are comprised in the curriculum, while at 
the college the students are taught in addition to the above 
subjects, anatomy and physiology of domestic animals, and 
the treatment of the same in diseases, a special teacher 
superintending this department. The veterinary practi¬ 
tioners in this country have a novel patient in the reindeer; 
animals of this species number in the government of 
Uleaborg 79,715. The government fully alive to the value of 
dairy farming, has an organised system of dairy schools, 
district and village dairies, and itinerant female teachers in 
dairy-farming. The pupils at the dairy schools are females, 
they are servants to the master and as such are entitled to 
board and lodging. Their period of pupilage extends over 
two years; at the end of each year they are subjected to a 
