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THE 
VETERINARIAN. 
VOL. LTI. 
No. 624. 
DECEMBER, 1879. 
Fourth Series, 
No. 300. 
Communications and Cases. 
SYNOPSIS OF CONTINENTAL VETERINARY 
JOURNALS. 
By John Henry Steel, M.R.C.V.S., F.Z.S., Corresponding 
Member of the Italian Veterinary Academy. 
[Continued from p. 786.) 
Summary.—Journal de Medecine Veterinaire et de Zoo - 
technie, October, 1879 .—“ Veterinary Appointments and 
Honours.” From// Zootechnico. —“Veterinary Congress of 
Italy,” by M. Cornevin.' Recueil de Medecine Veterinaire , 
30th October, 1879. — “ Inauguration of the Statue of 
Claude Bourgelat, at Alfort College15th October.— 
ft Congress of Naturalists, Physicians, and Veterinarians of 
Germany.” 
The Congress of Italian veterinary professors and practi¬ 
tioners took place at Bologna, and lasted from the 7th to 
the 10th September. About 200 veterinary surgeons from dif¬ 
ferent parts of Italy attended and co-operated. Professor Lan- 
zillotti-Buonsante, President of the Organising Committee, 
opened the sitting. On his right was the illustrious Com¬ 
mander G. B. Ercolani, representing the Minister of Public 
Instruction; on his left Professor Cocconi, Member of the 
High Council of Health, representing the Minister of the 
Interior. The Prefect of Bologna, Commander Rizzoli, re¬ 
presenting the Academy, and M. G. Brugnoli, represent- 
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