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the soil is, of course, damp and marshy. In other places the ground 
is composed of a species of peat, and constantly overflowed by 
springs. Is it, therefore, astonishing that such meadows as these, 
neglected and uncultivated, should yield poor or bad hay ! 
Hence, then, we see that the breeding, rearing, and treatment 
of horses in that part of Lorraine of which we are speaking is 
altogether radically bad, and can only tend to deterioration, and to 
the engendering of morbid predispositions, the germ of which is 
only too fatally cherished and called into action by the subsequent 
violations of every principle of hygiene. 
THE VETERINARIAN, JUNE 1, 1845. 
Ne quid falsi dicere audeat, ne quid veri non audeat. — C icero. 
The proceedings of the Annual General Meeting will be found 
reported in our present Number. The meeting was not so large 
a one as we could have desired to have seen : there were many 
members absent who we know to be hearty well-wishers to the 
cause of the Charter, and who, we feel sure, would have made an 
effort to be present had they imagined there could have been the 
slightest occasion for their attendance. We attribute the paucity 
of the number of members present to mere accident. We hope, 
another year, to see many more of the true friends of veterinary 
science rallying round their own unshaken standard. 
Not a great deal of business was transacted at the meeting. 
In truth, there was but little to do. Our worthy and indefatigable 
President — whose office, we can, en passant , assure our readers 
has been during its tenure any thing but a sinecure — opened the 
business of the day by informing the members that the intentions 
and objects of their charter had been by the Council worked out 
with all the care and attention that could be bestowed upon them; 
and that the by-laws, which had been framed by the Council 
after the fullest and most impartial consideration, had been perused 
not only by gentlemen standing high in the medical profession, 
but by ministers of state, with manifest satisfaction. To those 
