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fessor at the University of Vienna, and has been consulted 
by the Austrian civil administration in every difficult ques¬ 
tion. Venerated by his pupils, among whom we have the 
advantage of reckoning ourselves, Roll, by his teachings and 
his writings, has made for himself a reputation extending 
far beyond the borders of his country. His ‘ Manual of 
Special Pathology and Therapeutics,’ translated into different 
languages, is adopted by the veterinary schools of different 
countries. His clinical lessons were always marked with 
that decision of practice which his pupils and graduates will 
not soon forget. After teaching for thirty years at the Vete¬ 
rinary Institute of Vienna, M. Roll is about to leave that 
establishment, which owes to him, in great part, its high 
repute. The Austrian Government, which, in recognition 
of his services rendered some little time ago, appointed him 
Councillor of the Court and Member of the Superior Council 
of Hygiene, has just awarded to him, besides, the decoration 
of Chevalier of the Order of the Iron Crown (third class). 
JDrs. Armbrecht and Bruchmiiller, also Professors at the 
Vienna Institute, are named Councillors of the Austrian 
Government, in recognition of their services during a long 
academic career” (Dr. Wehenkel). M. Melon, army veteri¬ 
nary surgeon, has been appointed Chevalier of the Order of 
Leopold, while seventeen members of the veterinary pro¬ 
fession have received civic decorations from the hands of the 
King of the Belgians. The third session of the International 
Congress of Medical Sciences was held at Amsterdam, from 
7th to 14th September, 1879. M. Gille, Professor at the 
School of Veterinary Medicine, was one of the delegates of 
the Belgian Government to this Association. Called to 
assist in the Section of Pharmacology, he was named Hono¬ 
rary President of this section, and has had to perform the 
duties of reporter for the project of establishing an inter¬ 
national pharmacopoeia, as at the preceding session. 
Congress of Naturalists , Physicians and Veterinarians of 
Germany .—On 17th September was opened at Baden the 
fifty-second Congress of Naturalists and Physicians of 
Germany. The position of Baden on the banks of the 
Rhine and at the entry of one of the most beautiful valleys 
of the Black Forest and the splendour of that miniature 
capital brought crowds of German savants to the work and 
pleasures offered by the Congress. The visitors were 
numerous and the programmes always full. When Oken, 
of Leipzig, in 18££, collected around him some savants and 
founded this Congress, he expressed the idea formulated in 
Article 2 of its rules : t( The principal aim of the Congress is 
