title: Jean-Henri Magne
text: # Jean-Henri Magne
  
  Jean-Henri Magne (15 July 1804, Sauveterre-de-Rouergue – 27 August 1885) was a French veterinarian.
  
  During his career, he worked as a professor at the École royale vétérinaire de Lyon and at the École nationale vétérinaire d'Alfort, where from 1846, he served as director.
  
  In 1836 he became a member of the Société linnéenne de Lyon, serving as its president in 1841/42. He was also a member of the Académie d'agriculture de France and the Académie vétérinaire de France, being chosen as its president in 1855.
  
  ## Published works
  
  From 1848 to 1853, he was director of the agricultural journal, Le Moniteur agricole. With mycologist Claude Casimir Gillet, he collaborated on Nouvelle flore française (1873), a botanical work that was issued over several editions. He was the author of the following writings:
  
  * Principes d'agriculture et d'hygiène vétérinaire, 1843 – Principles of agriculture and veterinary health.
  * Choix des vaches laitières, 1850 – Selection of dairy cows.
  * Rapport sur les progrès de la médecine vétérinaire depuis vingt-cinq ans, 1867 – Report on the progress of veterinary medicine for the past twenty-five years.
  * Hygiène vétérinaire appliquée (third edition in 1867) – Applied veterinary health.
  