SYNOPSIS OF CONTINENTAL VETERINARY JOURNALS. 675 
tibialis anticus is double to give attachment to each of these 
digits by both of its portions. Also extensor communis 
digitorum sends a division to all the digits but these. The 
correlated variations thus are— 
Perforatus has a tendon passing to 2, one division of hallux. 
Perforans .... 1 and 2 
Tarso-prephalangeus . . 2 
We observe that the distal phalangeal articulation of 1 is 
not thoroughly developed. 
SYNOPSIS OF CONTINENTAL VETERINARY 
JOURNALS. 
By John Henry Steel, M.R.C.V.S., F.Z.S., Demonstrator 
of Anatomy at the Royal Veterinary College. 
{Continued from p. 536.) 
The National Congress of Veterinary Surgeons, organised 
under the august patronage of His Majesty the King and 
the honorary Presidency of the Minister of the Interior, has 
just terminated. Inaugurated on the 8th July by Director 
General Romberg , who was elected by the Minister of the 
Interior, since he was himself unable to attend on account 
of indisposition, the Congress, after the preliminary 
announcement and vote, was addressed by M. Moreau , in 
place of the Burgomaster Van Lint , who, also, was detained 
by sickness. After this welcome, the history of the organi¬ 
sation of the Assembly was explained by M. Wehenkel, a 
member of the committee. The Congress next proceeded to 
the nomination of its officers, who were selected by acclama¬ 
tion, as follows : 
President , M. Thiernesse, Director of the School of 
Veterinary Medicine. 
Vice-presidents , M. Aerts, Veterinary Inspector of the 
Army, and M. Jacobs, of Termonde, President of the 
Veterinary Medical Federation. 
General Secretary , Professor Wehenkel, of Brussels. 
Treasurer , M. Crevecceur, of Louvain. 
Adjunct Secretaries, Messrs. Reul, of Brussels ; Stubbe, 
of Louvain ; Hughes, of Tournai; Bastin, of Burdinne. 
The programme of the proceedings had been arranged as 
follows: 
1. Inspection of alimentary matters of animal origin. 
