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there are also useful woodcuts , and , as we before said, excellent 
copper -plates, illustrating the test” 
The above sentence would not have been indited, had it 
been known that Professor Spooner was the author of the 
nomenclature ; I made the drawings for the woodcuts, and 
some of the copper-plates are my composition. 
With such random, and such blind thrusts, does the above 
review abound. The worst feature about it being, that it 
displays a bad feeling towards “Mayhew,”or “Mr. Mayhew,” 
whose name is by far too frequently mentioned, and always 
as a peg on which to hang some shred of vulgar abuse. I 
would have hoped, that the time had at last arrived when the 
members of our profession could speak of one another, and 
dispute like gentlemen ; I regret such appears not to be the 
case. In the affair in question, Mr. Barlow will not mend 
the matter by asserting that he did not write the review ; as 
an editor, he has more than a personal responsibility of every 
unacknowledged article that appears in the paper over which 
he presides ; the moral obloquy of every slander printed in 
its pages clings to him. As an author, perhaps dislike might 
in some measure have guided his pen ; but as editor, he ac- 
cepted a post of judgment, and this last quality he was bound 
to exercise, or, obviously, he betrayed a solemn trust. 
I have the honour to be. Sir, 
Your most obedient servant, 
Edward Mayhew. 
7 , London Street ; Sept. 7 , 1854 . 
CASES OF RABIES, &c. 
To the 'Editor of 6 The Veterinarian 
Dear Sir, — Should you deem the enclosed, hastily 
written cases of sufficient interest to appear in your ably 
conducted and instructive periodical, their insertion in an 
early number will oblige, 
Yours truly, 
Richard Shenton. 
Ashbourn; Sept. 14 , 1854 . 
On the 1 6th of April last, a strange dog made his appear- 
ance in the neighbourhood of Tissington, near Ashbourn, 
where he commenced sheep-worrying. On leaving Tissington, 
he ran furiously from village to village, over an extensive 
