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FOURTH INTERNATIONAL VETERINARY CONGRESS. 
declared the bureau formed, and in the absence of the President, 
called Mr. Boulcy, the first of the Vice Presidents in alphabetical 
order, to the chair. 
Before leaving the chair, Mr. Somerhausen presented a motion, 
offered by Mr. Wehenkel, that Mr. Thiernesse be notified by 
special message of his nomination to the Presidency, and to 
express to him the sincere wishes of the Congress for his rapid 
return to health. The motion was unanimously adopted. 
On taking the chair, Mr. Bouley proposed a vote of thanks 
to Mr. Somerhausen, who had so willingly accepted the place of his 
Excellency, the Secretary of the Interior, and had so warmly 
welcomed the members of the Congress. He also tendered his 
own thanks for the honor conferred upon him. The meeting 
then adjourned until 1:30 in the afternoon. 
FIRST DAY OF MEETING. 
Prof. Muller (Vice President) in the chair. 
The meeting was called to order at 1:30 p. m. 
Mr. Bouley, in the name of the Committee, presented to the 
Congress their thanks for the honor conferred upon them. 
Mr. Wehenkel presented a communication containing a special 
invitation to the members to visit the Hotel de Ville, the sewers 
of Brussels and the Court House. 
The first question, to wit, “The Organization of the Veterin¬ 
ary Service,” was then introduced and discussed. Mr. Zundel 
then read the resolutions of the various reporters. 
Mr. Locustiano, of Bucharest, described the German and 
Roumanian veterinary organizations, and said that if sanitary 
police was properly applied all over, the annoying measures of 
the closing of frontiers would, to a great extent, disappear. 
Discussion on the First Resolution of the Reporters. 
Mr. Pu.tz asked that the applications of laws of sanitary 
police be by veterinarians, and that there should be a special 
representative of their interests in the central administration. 
Mr. Quivogne: The veterinarian must remain a veterinarian, 
a physician, and not become a functionary. Veterinary service 
