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veterinary college. The American Veterinary Review, 

 issued monthly, edited by Prof. A. Liautard, M.D., V.M., 

 Honorary Fellow of the Royal College of Veterinary 

 Surgeons, England, and the valuable works of Dr James 

 Law of Cornell University, Prof. O. Schwartzkopff, V.M., 

 of the University of Minnesota, Prof. Wm. Zuill, M.D., 

 D.V.S., of the University of Pennsylvania, Dr Hoskins 

 and Dr Williams of New York, Dr Huidekoper of Phila- 

 delphia, Dr D. E. Salmon of the U.S. Department of 

 Agriculture, and others, tell of the great strides in practical 

 scientific knowledge, students are making in America. 



To seize an idea quickly and improve it to perfection is 

 a national trait — a matter of chronic surprise and wonder- 

 ment, to those who know only the method which grinds 

 and plods, to arrive at certain truths only after the most 

 exhausting labour. 



If our experiments are somewhat bold, we are sure they 

 will be tempered with humane treatment, and that we shall 

 never imitate the dreadful abuses one sometimes reads of 

 in the foreign news, to which science in many cases con- 

 demns its victims, the wretched dumb creatures selected 

 for experiment. 



Our societies for the prevention of cruelty to animals, 

 presided over by such men as George Angell of Boston, 

 and John P. Haines of New York, are ever on the alert 

 to enforce kindest consideration for all that need their 

 protection, while cruelties are punished with all the rigours 

 of the law. The workers are in earnest. Abuses are being 

 corrected. The abolishment of the check-rein in many of 

 the smartest turnouts on our fashionable drives, proves the 

 significance of ' Black Beauty's ' horse-sense, and how 

 deeply it has sunk into the minds and natures of the 



