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to bring about personal acquaintance between German 
naturalists and physicians.” This spirit reigned at Baden. 
Mathematicians, physicians, chemists, geologists, zoologists, 
botanists, doctors, pharmaceutists, and veterinarians, met 
not only at the three general sittings, but also at the meetings 
of the twenty-three sections, at which special communica¬ 
tions were produced and discussed. Naturally these sections, 
in which personal acquaintances could most easily spring up, 
remained correspondingly grouped for pleasures and ex¬ 
cursions, and it was during these outings, from which gaiety 
was far from being excluded, that exchange of ideas flowed 
most readily, and amusement was combined with instruc¬ 
tion. The Congress lasted until the 24th September, and 
this year, for the first time, veterinarians have been invited 
to take part in it and form a section. For the first time 
they have found their place at this scientific Congress—a 
fact which in itself deserves record. M. Hering, the cele¬ 
brated Professor, accepted the invitation, and his great age 
only prevented him from presiding over the Section of which 
he had been elected President by acclamation, and obliged 
him to handover the chair to Dr. Both Lydlin, Veterinarian 
of the Court at Carlsruhe. M. Braun, of Baden, was 
entrusted with the introduction of the Section. Both 
gentlemen most ably performed their duties. When I tell 
you that Roloff, Director of the Berlin Veterinary School; 
Professors Leisering and Dundorf, of Dresden; Frank, 
Director of the Munich Veterinary School; Professors 
Fricker, Buff, Schmitt, and Boekle, of Stuttgard; 
Annocker, of Dusseldorf; Putz, of Halle; Zipperlin, of 
Hohenheim; Niedesheiser, of Berne; and Zundel, of 
Strasbourg, came to Baden, I do so to show that, even if all 
of the aristocracy of the profession was not present at the 
Congress, it was well represented. Numerous private 
practitioners supplemented these. The Veterinary Society 
of the Grand Duchy of Baden, by making one of its meetings 
coincide with the Congress and fixing Baden as the place of 
meeting, brought a stout phalanx to assist in the work and 
pleasure of the Congress. After the formation of the 
Veterinary Section M. Both Lydlin, President, welcomed all 
members in an oration of high interest, in which he dwelt 
upon the great importance of the fact that now for the first 
time veterinary surgeons have taken an official position in 
the Scientific Congress of Germany. The voluminous corre¬ 
spondence which he placed on the table showed that this 
had not been brought about without trouble, and to 
M. Lydlin is due the honour of having brought the negotiet- 
