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learned in both from the natives of the East, as well as to be com- 
municated to them.' So much was he impressed with the capa- 
bilities of the countries he visited, and the advantages to be derived 
from the cultivation of their products, that it was his serious inten- 
tion to settle, upon his return, in the lower range of the Himalaya, 
and devote the rest of his life to the occupations of a farmer. 
With such views and impressions, therefore, much that recom- 
mends travels in the present day-liveliness of general descrip- 
tion, moving incidents by flood and field, and good-humoured 
garrulous self-sufficiency — are not to be looked tor; but if the 
travels of Moorcroft and Trebeck are not quite so amusing as 
those of some more modern voyagers, it is to be hoped that they 
will more than compensate for the deficiency by merits of their 
own.” 
Extracts from Foreign Journals. 
The Central Society of Veterinary Medicine of Paris. 
Our Number for last month contained sketches of proceedings 
and addresses at this Society on the occasion of its opening (in 1846), 
and on that of its second meeting at the conclusion of 1847. We 
are now going to redeem the promise we then made of giving 
abstracts from the reports made at these two annual meetings, be- 
ginning with that for the session ending 1846. 
After M. Girard had concluded his opening address, M. H. 
Bouley, the annual Secretary of the Society, read the following 
Compte-rendu of its proceedings for the past year : — 
It is customary with re-unions instituted like our own for the 
improvement, through their united efforts, of some one special 
science, at the conclusion of each session to suspend for awhile 
their routine business, in order to devote a few moments to a hasty 
retrospection of results emanating out of their past labours. 
A halt of this kind enables us to possess ourselves of what we 
have accomplished, and, by a retrospective coup d'ceil , finding this 
has not proved unattended with good, we derive confidence in the 
future, and courage to pursue with greater ardour our not wholly 
unprofitable labours. 
The Central Society, adhering to a custom no less honourable for 
its antiquity than its excellence, now for the first time since its 
foundation presents itself before the public with some account of 
its transactions. 
