676 SYNOPSIS OF CONTINENTAL VETERINARY JOURNALS. 
2. Legislation on tlie questions of soundness and unsound¬ 
ness (vices redhibitories .) 
3. The moral aspects (Deontolgie) of veterinary science. 
4. Organisation of the civil veterinary service. 
Although the Congress was an essentially national as¬ 
sembly, representatives of the neighbouring countries 
assisted at it. Alsace-Lorraine was represented by its 
Senior Veterinary Surgeon, M. A. Zundel; England, by 
Mr. Fleming, Veterinary Inspector of the English Army ; 
Germany, by M. Vogel, Professor at Stuttgard; France, by 
Messrs. Delalande, of Bourges, formerly a pupil at the 
Belgian School, and Bossignol, of Melun; Holland, by 
M. Thomassen ; the Grand Duchy of Luxemburg, by 
Messrs. Buffett, Fischer, and Siegen, formerly pupils at 
the Belgian School. 
The delegate of the Minister, M. Romberg, invited M. 
Thiernesse to replace him in the President’s chair and 
declared the Congress opened. On taking in hand the duties 
which devolved upon him, M. Thiernesse thanked the 
meeting for the honour done to him in his being called upon 
to direct its proceedings, and stated that he would endeavour, 
as much as possible, to show that their confidence in him 
had not been misplaced. He then stated the aim of the 
meeting of this Congress, and that it had begun its work 
under good auspices. He showed that His Majesty the 
King had designed to extend to it his patronage, and that 
the Minister of the Interior, in accepting the presidency, 
and in charging the Director-General of Agriculture and 
Industry to inaugurate it in his name, had acknowledged 
all the importance which is to be attributed to its delibera¬ 
tions on the subjects of the programme. He then expressed 
the sincere thanks of the assembly for these marks of ap¬ 
proval, and finished by proposing a vote of thanks; first, to 
the honorable delegate of the Minister, M. Bomberg, for 
this fresh mark of interest in the veterinary profession ex¬ 
hibited by him, and second, to the organising committee of 
the Congress for the zeal and intelligence exhibited by it in 
the performance of its work (loud applause). 
After the correspondence had been dealt with by the 
secretary, the discussion was opened successively, from two 
points of view, by M. Van Hertsen and Professor Laho on 
the Inspection of Alimentary Matters of Animal Origin . 
This important question gave rise to an animated debate, 
at the end of which the Congress voted : — 1. That inspection 
of all meat destined for food should be rigorously carried 
out on an organised system. 2. That inspection offices for 
