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plead guilty, and with shame we do so, to this charge ; and why ? 
Because our education has been so imperfect, and we have been 
systematically taught to dread some fearful evil, in being pre- 
pared to meet and converse with — to instruct, and to be instructed 
by — our medical brethren. We have been “ cabinned, cribbed, 
confined,” to a degree that would scarcely be thought possible 
in this age of increasing light. 
If we caught aright the language of one of those gentlemen 
who has done us the honour to become an honorary associate in 
our new institution, it was to this effect: — “ Every one who 
studies human anatomy is ready to acknowledge the importance 
of uniting with it the study of comparative anatomy ; but, as a 
surgeon, i am still more sensible of the advantages resulting to 
the science of human anatomy from associating with it the phe- 
nomena of disease, because morbid changes throw light upon 
the natural functions in a much more impressive and instructive 
manner than any other mode of research. It is from knowing 
that the veterinary surgeon necessarily combines a deep interest 
in the diseases of the animals which it is his province to treat, 
with a careful examination of their natural structure and func- 
tions, that I consider his department of science capable of con- 
ferring the highest benefits upon that which I have the honour of 
teaching/’ — “ I can only consider myself,” says another eminent 
practitioner, “ entitled to such a distinction — that of being- 
elected an honorary associate — on the ground of a fellow-labourer 
with others, to add to the common stock of medical and surgical 
knowledge, by the valuable illustrations which veterinary science 
and practice abound with ; and by a sincere respect for that most 
important department of the profession, and its enlightened and 
zealous cultivators.” 
Gentlemen, we thank you : we will not quite deceive your ex- 
pectations. We receive this volume from you with thanks, for 
its “ illustrations” are “ valuable” indeed ; and we trust that the 
time is not far distant when we may be admitted as humble, but 
not quite valueless, workers in such a field. 
Y. 
J^Selrical Sumprutrence* 
Wolfe v. Elmore, December 7th , 1836. 
The plaintiff, in the month of August last, exchanged a bay 
horse, valued at 80 guineas, which he had previously purchased 
of the defendant, who is well known as a horse-dealer, with him 
