294 SYNOPSIS OF CONTINENTAL VETERINARY JOURNALS. 
Society of Boston,, for his natural history researches, not the 
least valuable of which are on the subject of Trichina. This 
gentleman takes a lively interest in diseases of animals, and 
the just acknowledgment of his high merit must prove a 
source of satisfaction to us all. Death has been removing 
leading members of the profession in France and Italy. In 
the former country, M. Lecoq , late Director of the Lyons 
Veterinary School, and also Inspector General of the Veteri¬ 
nary Schools, died on the 14th February last, and an oration 
over his tomb was made by Professor St. Cyr, who studied 
under him. He was an author of high ability ; the work on 
the Anatomy of the Exterior of Domesticated Animals , which 
he wrote, remains the standard volume on the subject. In 
Italy the Director of the Parma Veterinary School, Professor 
Pietro Delprato, died on the 29th of January last. He was 
instrumental in giving to the veterinary profession the high 
position which it occupies in Italy. The announcement of 
this serious loss is made on an extra leaf of a new Italian 
Journal, La Veterinarian which appeared as a successor to 
the Studente Veterinario , which had been carried on by 
Professor Ardenghi , one of the editors of the new publica¬ 
tion. Associated with him in this new venture is Dottore 
Giacento Fogliata, of Pisa. We may reasonably expect that 
under the auspices of these able scientists a valuable 
addition will be made to the already excellent Italian veteri¬ 
nary periodicals. The January number contains the pro¬ 
gramme with five original memoires, synopses of Italian, 
Austrian, and French journals, together with reviews, notes 
and news, &c., making a neat number of considerably over 
100 pages. The original work comprises a description of 
certain diseases prevalent in a commune near Pisa, also a 
paper by one of the editors of Trichinosis, in which the 
labours of English and American observers are duly ac¬ 
knowledged. Among others, those of the above mentioned 
Dr. J. Leidy, who, in 1847, detected Trichinae in a pig, thus 
showing the source of the parasite which Hilton and “ il 
sommo zoologico inglese Riccardo Owen ” had found and ex¬ 
amined in man. The extracts in the Italian review are 
from the Giornale di Anatomia , fisiologia e pathologic^ 
degli animali domestici, published in Pisa and La Cli- 
nica Veterinaria of Milan. We hope this Italian name¬ 
sake will retain the high standard exhibited in its first 
number, and wish it a long and successful career. A most 
useful work has reached a second edition, a Treatise on the 
Inspection of Butchers 5 Meat , considered in its relations with 
Zootechny , Veterinary Medicine , and Public Hygiene , by 
