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preventable contagious diseases among cattle, should be sufficient 
warning to the American people to take hold of the subject in 
earnest. 
SUNDRIES AND NEWS, 
VETERINARY HONORS. 
At the meeting held on the 12tli of December, 1878, Prof. 
Generali, of the Veterinary School of Milan, and Prof. Liautard, 
of the American Veterinary College in New York, were elected 
foreign corresponding members of the Central Society of Veter¬ 
inary Medicine in Paris. 
VETERINARY SCIENCE IN FRANCE AND BELGIUM. 
Medical universities having been established at Lyons and 
Toulouse, Prof. Chauveau, Director of the Lyons Veterinary 
School, has been elected to the chair of comparative pathology 
in the first named university, and Professor Toussaint, of the 
Toulouse Veterinary School, to the chair of physiology in the 
university of that city. Prof. Wehenkel, of the Brussels Univer¬ 
sity School, fills the chair of morbid anatomy and comparative 
pathology in the Brussels University. 
PROLIFIC COW. 
Hon. John D. Hue, of Dutch Neck, Mercer County, New 
Jersey, is the owner of a grade cow that has borne and raised 
nine calves within thirty-six months, or three years, having had 
twins three times, and now has triplets, alive and doing well, 
which she dropped in December last. Her first pair of twins 
were dropped in January, 1876. 
OPPORTUNITY FOR A PRACTICE. 
The Deer Creek Farmer’s Club, of Harford County, Marj 7 - 
land, inquires for a regular good veterinarian. The prospects are 
