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associations in the kingdom choose to combine, select six 
men, and attend the next annual meeting in overwhelming 
force, they can, doubtless, return them ; and in a few years 
the Council, instead of representing the profession, would 
represent the societies; but this is not what the societies 
mean, and assuredly it is not what they will effect. Short 
of this we are at a loss to understand what the resolution 
amounts to. 
For reasons which we do not care now to fully explain, 
w r e look with some misgiving at the attempt, feeble though 
it be, to mingle veterinary politics with veterinary science. 
Ars long a vita brevis should be their associations motto. 
Medical societies are a power in. the profession, but not a 
political power ; as a body, each society is pledged to do its 
utmost to advance the interests of veterinary science ; but 
if any two things on earth are hopelessly irreconcilable, 
those two are science and politics. 
Reviews. 
Quid sit pulchrum, quid turpe, quid utile, quid non. — H or. 
Occasional Papers on Veterinary Subjects. By William 
Dick, late Professor of Veterinary Surgery to the High- 
land and Agricultural Society of Scotland, Veterinary 
Surgeon to the Queen for Scotland, Founder of the 
Edinburgh Veterinary College, &c. With a Memoir by 
It. O. Pringle, Editor of tlfe Farmer’s Gazette . William 
Blackwood and Sons, Edinburgh and London. 1869. 
Professor Dick wrote but little on veterinary subjects, as 
the Editor of ‘ Occasional Papers 9 remarks, and what he did 
write usually took the form of articles in the veterinary 
and agricultural papers on some subject of the day. Perhaps 
the professor was fully aware that he did not belong to a 
reading profession, and felt little inclined “ to weary himself 
