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FOURTH INTERNATIONAL VETERINARY CONGRESS 
Messrs. Wirtz, Fleming and Liautard presented as an ad¬ 
ditional article to proposition YI, “ It is very desirable that 
veterinary schools, in all countries, be State institutions.” Adopted. 
The amendment of Messrs. Seissmann and Rabl, putting the 
number of veterinary professors to eight at least, was not ad¬ 
mitted ; the number eight was also rejected, and it was decided 
that it is unnecessary to fix the number in a general manner. 
Mr. Bayer said that it was through an error that the reporters 
had said that in Austria, none of the professors are veterinarians: 
they are all or nearly all so. 
Mr. Quivogne asked that the second part of the first paragraph 
be stricken out. Adopted. 
The first of Chapter YII thus modified, was adopted ; the sec¬ 
ond was also adopted. 
Mr. Kossignol proposed to require not less than two years of 
practice before any nomination to a professorship, or before any 
nomination to the functions of clinical professor. This was not 
adopted. 
Mr. Quivogne believed that it would be proper to replace para¬ 
graphs 1, 2 and 3 by a single one reading as follows: “ all 
positions relating to education shall be awarded after com¬ 
petition.” 
Messrs. Wirtz and Miller opposed the amendment, and it was 
rejected. 
The third is superceded by the reading of the first, which 
provides that one must be a veterinarian. 
After discussion, it was agreed that the fourth and fifth can¬ 
not be decided in a general sense. The discussions then 
closed. 
Mr. Wehenkel read a declaration signed by several members 
to justify their refraining from voting upon the question of 
pulmonary phthisis. It says, “ considering that it does not ap¬ 
pear to them possible to properly discuss and examine so import¬ 
ant a subject in so short a time as is at the disposition of the 
Congress; considering especially that we cannot vote upon the 
resolutions presented without first having examined the scientific 
side of the qnestion ; the undersigned have abstained from voting 
