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EDITORIAL OBSERVATIONS. 
Royal Agricultural Society of England, at its meeting held 
on the 22d ult. After stating the previous resolution of 
Council as to the sending out of Professor Simonds, in conjunc- 
tion with the Agricultural Societies of Scotland and Ireland, 
he says : c< On the 30th of April, the professor forwarded his 
first communication, in which he reported, that he found to 
a great extent that the pleuro-pneumonia had been mistaken 
for the severer malady of contagious typhus, and that he had 
to penetrate into Poland itself in order to meet with cases 
that might furnish evidences for his study and report. He 
expressed his firm opinion, that at present there was no fear 
of the contagious typhus being introduced into this country 
by means of living animals, whatever danger might arise 
from the importation of hides or other integumentary portions 
of slaughtered cattle.” 
THE LATE ANNUAL MEETING OF THE VETERINARY PRO- 
FESSION. PROPOSED TESTIMONIAL TO THE SECRETARY, 
E. N. GABRIEL, ESQ. 
We sincerely regret that the appeal made in our last to 
the profession was attended with little or no result. We 
had hoped otherwise ; for we thought, and still think, that 
there exists much at the present time to operate as a stimulus 
to inquiry, since matters of no little moment darken the 
horizon, both politically and professionally considered, and 
respecting which many doubts may be entertained as to the 
consequences proving beneficial or otherwise to the body. 
The numbers present at the meeting did not exceed those 
of antecedent years. It was, nevertheless, gratifying to see 
most of those who usually attend in their places. They give 
encouragement, and act as incentives to the Council to per- 
severe in their labours. We have done our duty, and can 
only repeat sentiments already expressed by us, which we do 
with sorrow. The sands of the hour-glass of time sparkle 
as they fall with momentous events. Each day and every 
hour, as they pass, seem pregnant with importance. All 
