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volume, enriched with five hundred engravings, which has 
just been published at Turin, by M. A. de Silvestri, pro¬ 
fessor at the Veterinary School of that town. Its title is 
given above. It is a kind of agricultural and medical botany, 
similar to that of MM. Rodet and Baillet, which we have 
in France, and will be particularly useful to agriculturalists, 
veterinarians, cavalry and administrative officers. The 
text is good, and the plates are well worked. We are well 
aware how difficult it is to obtain even passable engravings 
in the provinces, and must congratulate our Italian colleagues 
on having, thanks to the absence of centralization, good 
workmen at hand to illustrate the good books they produce. 
Two other professors of Zootechny, M. Lemoigne, of 
Milan, and M. Tampelini, of Modena, have happily thought 
right to translate the work of M. Sanson on economy 
of live stock. The detailed analysis which we gave last 
year of this work, by the Professor of Grignon, renders it 
superfluous to enter into further particulars about it, and 
we must content ourselves with congratulating the trans¬ 
lators on their happy thought, and the author for the 
patriotic satisfaction with which we see French work spread, 
by its writings, beyond our frontiers. 
VETERINARY SCIENCE IN AMERICA. 
Communication from Mr. J. H. Steel. 
Gentlemen, —In your number for May I notice a letter 
from Mr. Robert Jennings, jun., of Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, 
in which he alludes to my paper on “Veterinary Science in 
America/’ which you did me the honour to insert in your 
January number. I trust you will excuse me if I consider 
I am able to treat with contempt Mr. Jennings’s observa¬ 
tion that my paper contains “calumnies,” “infamous 
charges,” and “ slanderous statements.” Allowing to him 
good faith in professional writings, and simple honest desire 
for truth (which he denies to me), I shall consider a few of 
his remarks. He says “errors and omissions are readily 
detectable ” in the paper. With regard to omissions, I did 
not presume to undertake the very ambitious task of record¬ 
ing every futile attempt to inaugurate veterinary studies in 
America. Had I done so I fear I should have overtaxed your 
patience, and should have found few readers. Acknowledg¬ 
ing freely that there are omissions, I am also most willing 
