CORRESPONDENCE. 
595 
By the kindness of your President, in a letter received late 
in August, I was also warmly requested to be present, as I was 
to be the object of a reception on that occasion. 
The late hour at which this was received, with unavoidable 
circumstances, and the official obligations I had to meet at the 
Seventh International Veterinary Congress at Baden, did not 
leave me sufficient opportunity to prepare, and to this effect I 
notified Dr. Pendry, addressing through him, the Alumni, tender¬ 
ing my best wishes for all. 
Toward the end of September, in the Review of that 
month, I read with surprise in the friendly remarks of my 
friend and co-editor the first information of the presentation of 
which I was to be the object. But now I have received from 
many of our friends letters telling me what has taken place in 
the celebration of the anniversary, describing the beautiful 
token that waited for me, giving the names of all that inquired 
about me, and speaking of their disappointment at my absence. 
To describe all my feelings at the reading of all these events, 
is beyond my power. My heart is full with joy and pride at the 
kindness and marks of affection given me by the Alumni, and 
at the friendly words of many of our colleagues, but my eyes 
are filled with tears at the thought that I have disappointed so 
many. 
It is, then, not only a letter of thanks and of the full appre¬ 
ciation of the honor you have conferred upon me, that I address 
to all my old students, it is one of everlasting regrets that, 
while so far from them, I have for once failed in the perform¬ 
ance of a duty when the American veterinary profession de¬ 
manded it. 
Let me, however, say to you all : Thanks, and many of 
them. The handsome token you have offered me, I accept, not 
as being so much for the man as for the bearer of the flag of 
our dear profession, which I have tried to hold high and fore¬ 
most for so many years. And now, far from you, although I 
still entertain the hope of returning to you soon, let me assure 
you that this valuable token will for ever remain to me the 
greatest reward that I could ever expect in my professional 
career, even if my joy should remain marred with my regrets of 
having been unable to tell you, viva voce , how the old man feels 
at this proof of love from his boys . 
With my best wishes for you all, and, once more, thanks, I 
remain, as ever, your sincere friend and old dean, 
A. Liautard. 
