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wonderful writer, and an eloquent orator; and the place he occu¬ 
pied among the savants of France was but rightly and fairly his 
due. 
But these are not the only grounds of our earnest regrets at 
his loss. His personal influence, his kindness of heart, his 
friendly bearing towards all men, had gained for him the affec¬ 
tion and esteem of all who knew him. He could not make, or 
have, an enemy, and he had none. We, for our own part, who 
have been numbered with his students, and to whom he always 
accorded the most cordial treatment whenever, duiing our visits 
in Paris, we visited him at his home, can never forget how kindly 
he questioned us as to our progress in America; how solicitous 
he appeared, and felt, to know of the standing of onr profession; 
and how sympathetically he tendered us his excellent counsel in 
respect to the labor which he knew we had chosen for our life’s 
work. 
Onr latest parting, in August last, was most friendly, and we 
shall never forget his sad but kind smile when, in answer to our 
inquiry if he would come to America to assist in the International 
Medical Congress, he bodingly said, “ No, my friend; my health 
will not permit it.” 
The funeral rites attending the burial of Mr. Henry Bouley 
were worthy of this great man. The students of the school at 
Alfort led the cortege, and were followed by delegations of the 
Professors from Lyons and Toulon, and after these appeared a 
long procession of other veterinarians. Many of the veterinary 
societies and other scientific bodies to which he had belonged had 
also appointed delegates, to give expression by their presence of 
their sense of an almost national calamity, and at the tomb 
speeches were made by representatives of the Institute of France, 
of the Museum of Natural History, of the Committee on Hygiene, 
of the Academy of Medicine, of the Veterinary Schools of 
France, of the Society of Acclimatation, of the Military Veter¬ 
inarians, of the Society of Biology, of the Agricultural Society, 
of the Veterinary Societies of France, and of the Societe Cen- 
trale Veterinaire, which by his death has lost the last of its 
founders. 
