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uated, and to which he was immediately attached as Assistant 
Demonstrator, Professor, and (in 1867, when Delwart retired) 
Director. He was a man of large intelligence, a hard worker, 
and always ready to do what he could to advance his profession 
and aid his colleagues. A member of numerous societies in 
Belgium, France, Germany, Russia, and Italy, he received the 
last acknowledgment and recognition of his eminent qualities 
that the veterinary profession could bestow upon him, in his 
appointment to the post of Permanent Honorary President at the 
Fourth International Veterinary Congress. He has left to the 
profession numerous pamphlets and other writings on various 
veterinary subjects, many of which are found in the Annates de 
Bruxelles. 
The November number of the Clinica Veterinaria brings us 
also the sad news of the death of Prof. Giovanni Battista Ercolani, 
Director of the Veterinary School of Turin, which took place on 
the 16th of November at Bologne. Sixty-four years of age, though 
of a delicate constitution and suffering with a disease which must 
have rendered his life a burden and which lasted for a long time, 
Ercolani has done much for the veterinary profession in Italy, and 
has left not less than one hundred and thirty-six pamphlets and 
books relating to veterinary as well as to human medicine, adding 
in this way to the great and wealthy collection of researches in 
comparative medicine. 
VETERINARY HONORS. 
The decoration of the Merite Agricole — instituted a few 
months ago — has been received by Mr. P. Genee, veterinary 
surgeon; Mr. Teisserenc de Bort, Senator, late Secretary of Agri¬ 
culture and President of the Commission of Epizooties; Mr. 
Tisserand, Director of Agriculture; Mr. Chazely, Professor of 
Zootechnie; Mr. Megnin, Military Veterinary Surgeon. 
