86 SYNOPSIS OF VETERINARY CONTINENTAL JOURNALS. 
the theory of germs, of contagium vivum, with all its legi¬ 
timate deductions. When I hear mentioned this birth of a 
charbon virus without any serious basis of proof to support 
it, when in our minutes I read the account of experiments 
on the subjects with which I deal made without precision, 
when I see negative results abounding in all sorts of errors 
brought forward in opposition to positive and demonstrated 
facts, I say with grief, f Here is still an example of the 
methods and dogmas of the recent past,’ and I feel myself 
encouraged to pay to your science, which I love well for its 
own sake as well as for its wide and beneficent applications, 
a new tribute of scientific efforts.” The zeal of a provincial 
veterinary society, in acknowledgment of the valuable bear¬ 
ings of M. Pasteur’s recent work in the advancement of 
veterinary science, led it, through its president, to write to 
the savant in question, offering to him the diploma of vete¬ 
rinarian. He accepted the offer most cordially, but the 
Society could do no more in the matter than write to the 
Societe Centrale requesting co-operation. But to the more 
important society it seemed inadvisable that such an irregu¬ 
larity should be permitted even in the case of M. Pasteur, 
so it was resolved that the proposal could not be adopted ; 
but to prove the absence of any personal feeling in the 
matter, by unanimous vote the Societe Centrale de Me- 
decine Yeterinaire elected M. Pasteur a titular member of 
their body/ We rather wonder that, with the admirable 
organisation and unification of veterinary societies recently 
adopted in France, such an awkward contingency could 
arise. M. Pasteur has also recently been added to the Con¬ 
sulting Committee on Epizootics. His presence at the meet¬ 
ings of this important sanitary body will prove of advantage 
to his country. Also we note that the same honour has 
been conferred on a distinguished veterinarian, M. Boutet, 
of Chartres. 
M. Bouley shows us how (( history repeats itself” in 
tracing the position of the charbon question as discussed in 
the present day by MM. Colin and Pasteur. He recalls 
the discussion in 1857 on the communicability of glanders of 
the horse to man. Hayer brought the matter forward in 
reference to a case of glanders in man which he had under 
treatment, but Elliotson, a countryman of ours, had pre¬ 
ceded him in the discovery. Medical authorities, and no¬ 
tably veterinary pathologists, rallied themselves in a vast 
phalanx, which threatened to utterly overthrow M. Rayer’s 
single efforts. M. Barthelemey (Senior), Professor at Alfort, 
was their eloquent and able leader. An “ enormous mass ” 
