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THE VETERINARIAN, MAY 1, 1870. 
Ne quid falsi dicere audeat, ne quid veri non audeat. — Cicero. 
THE PROPOSED VETERINARY PATHOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 
Since we referred to the subject of the formation of a 
central veterinary society two months ago, some considerable 
progress has been made in the direction which was then 
indicated ; indeed so far has the matter advanced that if 
we have again to chronicle a failure we shall at the same 
time congratulate the members who have concerned them- 
selves in the arrangement of preliminaries, on a nearer 
approach to success than has hitherto been achieved. The 
duties of provisional secretary have been undertaken by Mr. 
Armatage, who has enlisted in the cause many members of 
the profession, the number of which will, we doubt not, be 
largely increased at the forthcoming annual meeting. 
While Mr. Armatage is working quietly to secure the 
assistance and presence of those gentlemen whose names 
will at once give an aspect of stability and genuineness to 
the new society, we may take time by the forelock in order 
to anticipate some objections which are certain to be offered, 
as to the advantages of such an association, by the few who see 
no good in anything like onward movement, unless it be in 
the direction of business and is capable of being definitely 
expressed in the form of so much return upon the outlay in 
current coin of the realm. Truly we are not so rich a pro- 
fession as to be able to despise the solid results of professional 
labours, but there is an implied obligation on our part to 
render an equivalent for the fees which we receive, and the 
public has a right to demand that a professional man shall 
leave no means untried to add to his power to deal success- 
fully with animal disease in the way not only of cure, but 
also of prevention. 
To this important end a pathological society would largely 
contribute in many ways; take a single illustration of a 
perfectly simple and practical line of investigation, the possible 
good results of which are wholly incalculable. 
