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was removed by the forceps ; in the same manner the remainder was 
taken away ; the animal was let up, and in a few minutes passed the 
urine without difficulty. A part of calculus was lost, as it crumbled be¬ 
tween the blades of the forceps ; the weight of the remainder was thirty- 
five grains. 
Calculi in the urinary organs may not be rare in other localities, it 
certainly is in this, as this is the third case which has come under my ob¬ 
servation in a practice extending over a period of more than thirty years. 
E. F. Thayer. 
EDITORIAL. 
PROFESSOR GERLACH.—VETERINARY EDUCATION. 
The Veterinary profession has just lost one of its best lights, one 
of the greatest reformers in the general Veterinary education, Professor 
Gerlach, the able Director of the Veterinary School of Berlin, Prussia, 
died on the 29th of August last. 
Since the days of Renault, of Alfort, there never was a man 
whose whole life has been devoted to the improvement and advance¬ 
ment of both the Veterinary Profession and the education of those 
desirous to enter on its studies; and though but few of our read¬ 
ers knew of him, his world-wide reputation was such as a teacher, a 
writer and an investigator that all Veterinarians, even on this side of the 
Atlantic, will appeciate the loss Veterinary art has sustained in the death 
of such an eminent man. 
Through the kindness of one of our correspondents, a student and 
more than a friend of his, we are able to present our readers with an 
obituary of Professor Gerlach, and we do it as the leading paper of a 
series of articles on Veterinary Education which was the subject of 
much attention on the part of the deceased director, and to which these 
articles we might consider as being dedicated to his memory. 
The subject of Veterinary Education abroad and on this continent 
has occupied the minds of many engaged in the duties of teaching at the 
different schools. The first numbers of the Review contain articles 
from the pen of Professor McEachran ; those which we have re¬ 
ceived from Mr. Billings, which we will publish at some future 
time, will, no doubt, be found interesting, and though there are in 
them many points which we fear would be of difficult, but not impossi¬ 
ble realization, we must say that the good object they have in view will 
