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KUSH SHIPPEN HUIDEKOPER. 
lint recently we have lost Ercolani of Bologna, who was known 
throughout the scientific world for his researches in comparative 
anatomy, histology of the organs and animal parasites ; greater 
perhaps to an Italian was his reputation as a patriot and states¬ 
man in aiding the consolidation of Italy. Gurlt also was a vet¬ 
erinary teacher; Thiernesse, the late Director of the Cureghem 
School, was Secretary of the Academy of Medicine, in Brussels; 
Bouley, to-day Vice-President of the Academie des Sciences in 
Paris and professor at the side of Milne-Edwards in the Museum, 
was the greatest veterinary clinician ever known. Chauveau, the 
anatomist and physiologist, is Director of the Veterinary School 
in Lyons, and professor in the Medical Faculty, in which posi¬ 
tions he preferred to remain when he refused the chair of Claude 
Bernard; Bollinger, Siedemgrotszky, Heusinger, Goubaux and 
others, whose names are well known in scientific journals, are vet¬ 
erinary surgeons. In the staff of assistants who accompanied 
Pasteur to Egypt to study the cholera was Nocard, a veterinary 
teacher in Alfort. 
While preparing myself for my position here I had the op¬ 
portunity of visiting many of the schools of. which I have just 
spoken, and working in several of them, and I beg to be allowed 
this occasion to publicly testify my thanks and gratitude for the 
almost universal courtesy, politeness and aid which I received. 
It was first shown me as your representative, although in many 
cases it developed into warm personal friendships, and you will 
allow me to especially mention M. Bouley, M. Goubaux and the 
Faculty of Alfort, M. Chauveau, and the Faculty of Lyons, M. 
Marey, the Faculty of the Vienna school, Professors Dieck- 
erhoff at Berlin, and Leisering at Dresden, Lanzillotti Buonsanti 
at Milan and Mr. Fleming and Professor Williams in England 
and Scotland. To the memory of Ercolani I can only add the 
feeling of reverence which everyone had who knew him per¬ 
sonally. 
In America the advance in veterinary medicine has been far 
from keeping pace with our national reputation for energy and 
self-preservation. 
In 1806 Dr. Benjamin Rush, of this University, who had just 
