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Our agriculturists and breeders should therefore take their 
precautions in time. While Government is watching the 
out-ports, they should do all that science can suggest to stop 
the progress of the disease, or remove the causes which may 
lead to its appearance. If the crowding of cattle-sheds and 
the want of ventilation and cleanliness have a tendency to 
encourage the epidemic, as certainly seems likely enough, 
no time should be lost in remedying defects which may be 
productive of such incalculable evil/ 5 
THE ANNIVERSARY MEETING OE THE PROFESSION. 
Press of matter allows us to do little more than to direct 
the attention of the profession to their Annual Meeting, ad- 
vertised to be holden on Monday, the 4th of May. 
“ Vis unita fortior” is the motto of the College of Vete- 
rinary Surgeons, and in every sense, it is desirable that it 
should be realised by us as a body. Hitherto, it must be 
confessed, there has not been amongst us that union which 
gives strength. Indeed, the anniversary meetings have 
rather shown our disunion and weakness by the fewness of 
the members present ; which is doubtless attended with feel- 
ings both of disappointment and discouragement to the 
Council, for they know not what to attribute this to ; whether 
to apathy, dissatisfaction, or satisfaction. They would fain 
hope it is the latter ; but they would prefer that some other 
mode of expressing it were adopted. Silence and absence 
admit of two constructions. “ Divide et impera,” was a 
Roman maxim. Let it not obtain among us. Let not the 
enemy gain the ’vantage ground. Division is as much a 
proof of weakness as union is of strength. 
We have long been of opinion that occasional reunions 
tend not only to awaken kindly feelings among the members 
of our profession, but to cement them more firmly together; 
and we would that means were devised by which they could 
take place more frequently. 
We believe that the council of the Royal College of 
