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Given at our Court at Osborne, this 22d day of April, 1878, 
in the forty-first year of our reign. 
By Her Majesty’s command, 
Fred. Stanley. 
Additional Regulations to Royal Warrant. 
Candidates will be required to pass a medical examination as 
to their physical fitness for the service. They must also not be 
over twenty-six years of age, and unmarried. 
Candidates on joining will be required to serve a probationary 
period not exceeding six months; if not then approved of, their 
services will be dispensed with. 
A pplications for admission to the Veterinary Department of 
the Army should be addressed to the Principal Veterinary Sur¬ 
geon, War Office, London, accompanied by a certificate of age, 
and testimonials of character and qualifications. 
J. Collins, P.V.S. 
ITALIAN VETERINARY CONGRESS, 
A committee composed of the professors of the different 
schools of veterinary medicine in Italy, as well as of practitioners 
in the different parts of that country, has published invitations to 
a congress which is to take place at Bologna on the 7th of Sep¬ 
tember. 
The questions to be discussed are divided into two categories. 
VETERINARY EDUCATION. 
1. Propositions relating to the conditions of admission in the 
veterinary schools. 
2. Number and organization of the Governmental and private 
schools of veterinary medicine. 
3. Junction of the veterinary schools to the universities of 
first-class and other superior universital institutions. 
4. Fixation of the number of professors and assistants of the 
