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it not our bounden duty to learn to understand their nature 
better, and so the better be able to cure them, than it is very 
well known we do or can do at the present day] The spring 
which has just passed, and the summer which is but now pass- 
ing, can both vouch for this in the two influenzae that have been 
prevailing so alarmingly and extensively among our horses; 
while the pleuro-pneumonia of former years is ready to be ad- 
duced as an equally potent incentive to our exertions on the 
part of cattle. 
While the veterinary public may with some confidence cal- 
culate on beneficial results from the labours, now about to com- 
mence, of the epizootic committee, the committee itself may 
reasonably look forward to essential services being rendered it 
by the learned Council of the Society, as well as out of arrange- 
ments which the Council have been enabled to make, through 
the nomination of foreign secretaries, with countries abroad. 
The hand held out by the professor of the sister science in this 
spirit of liberality and friendship, in furtherance of objects of 
vital import to both professions, will be seized by the veterina- 
rian with cordiality and pride, and by him be hailed in token 
of a bond which, uniting two professions engaged in common in 
promoting the healing art, can never suffer division or dissever- 
ment without detriment to one or both of the bodies it holds in 
union. Comparative anatomy and physiology and pathology 
cast their lights forward and backward from object to object, in 
such manner, as through reciprocity of illumination, to cause 
the objects themselves to shine forth with redoubled brightness, 
while standing, as they do, in relation to one another, in a field 
in which the sciences enjoy so wide and unrestricted a range. 
The epizootic committee held their first meeting at the re- 
sidence of Mr. Tucker, on Tuesday, the 19th August: Professor 
Simonds, well known to all our readers for his ability for such 
an office, being appointed its permanent chairman The list of 
members, as yet imperfect, we hope to be able to give in our 
next Number, and at the same time to have it in our power to 
annex some account of the proceedings of the Committee. We 
need hardly add, from the interest which it must be plain to all 
we take in this matter, looking upon it, as we do, as one of vast 
consequence to us in our professional intercourse with the 
