242 COMMUNICATIONS OF MR. TURNER AND MR. CHERRY. 
The subscribers to The Veterinarian will rejoice to see, in 
the number for this month, a paper from the President of the Royal 
College of Veterinary Surgeons. We need not remind those 
veterinarians who have been witnesses to the transactions going 
on since the obtainment of our Charter — who have but heard even of 
the professional business connected with that glorious affair which 
has necessarily fallen into the hands of Mr. Thomas Turner — the 
meetings, the deputations, the consultations, that gentleman has 
had to attend, and has most scrupulously attended—the letters he 
has had to answer, &c. &c. ; — we say, those who have heard of 
these things — and who in the profession has not ] — will feel no 
surprise at his name honouring our pages so rarely as it does. 
Lest, however, they might deduce any erroneous inferences from 
the circumstance, we feel we can with the fullest assurance inform 
them, that The VETERINARIAN has not a warmer friend in ex- 
istence than our excellent and indefatigable President. 
His paper “ on wounded and divided tendons,” occasioned by 
hunting over a country in which flint stones so abound, that it is 
proverbially said, “ the more you pick off, the more make their 
appearance,” will be perused with the most lively interest. In 
every line it bears the impress of 'practice — actual practice. It 
is a picture painted on the spot, and sent to the engraver with- 
out gloss or varnish ; and one of which it becomes the duty of 
the young veterinarian going into a hunting country to practise, 
to make in his mind as true and faithful a copy as he can. 
The subject Mr. Cherry has embarked in — Cattle PATHOLOGY 
— constitutes of itself no less than the SECOND grand division of 
veterinary science, the first division being engrossed by the horse. 
Extraordinary as it may appear, the fact, as stated by Mr. Cherry, 
is incapable of being gainsaid, viz., that for half a century cattle 
pathology, as a science, has virtually lain in abeyance — so far at 
least as the English veterinary school has troubled itself on the 
subject, and notwithstanding that school originated in an agricul- 
tural society. As the pages of this Journal for some considerable 
length of time have shewn, few veterinarians have prosecuted 
