THE 
VETERINARIAN, 
VOL. LIII. 
No. 625. 
JANUARY, 1880. 
Fourth Series, 
No. 301. 
Communications and Cases. 
ON THE PROGRESS AND PRESENT STATE OF 
VETERINARY SCIENCE IN AMERICA. 
By John Henry Steel, M.R.C.V.S., F.Z.S., Corresponding 
Member of the Italian Veterinary Academy. 
V'ade Mecani of Equine Anatomy. By A. Liautard, M.D., 
V.S., Professor of Comparative Anatomy to the American 
Veterinary College, &c., &c. New York, 1879.—We gladly 
avail ourselves of the opportunity afforded to us by this 
work being placed in our hands for review to draw the 
attention of English veterinarians to the present condition 
of veterinary science on the other side oi the Atlantic. 
Such observations as we pen will perhaps not be con¬ 
sidered out of place if we remember that the woik whose 
title is placed at the head of this article is of much gieater 
importance as a sign of the times than its elemental y cha¬ 
racter and small hulk would give it at other times and in othei 
places. Its author is Dr. Liautard, who is the leader of the 
veterinary profession in the United States, editor-in-chiei o 
the only American veterinary periodical, corresponding mem- 
her of the Central Veterinary Society of Pans, and 
wvinninal nf t>ip Vpt.prinavv School, which an impartial ex- 
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