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EDITORIAL OBSERVATIONS. 
Moved by Mr. C. M. Baker, seconded by Mr. W. W. Toby, and 
carried, 
That for this purpose a Committee be appointed consisting of 
the members of the Council of the Veterinary Medical Association, 
with power to add to their number.” 
Moved by Mr. G. Varnell, seconded by Mr. J. Gamgee, and 
carried unanimously, 
“ That the above resolutions be published in The VETERINA- 
RIAN and Veterinary Record ; and it is hoped that the Editors 
of these Journals will insert the same gratuitously.” 
THE VETERINARIAN, JANUARY 1, 1850. 
Ne quid falsi dicere audeat, tie quid veri non audeat. — C icero. 
The beginning of a new year being our signal for the com- 
mencement of a new volume, in accordance with an old custom 
which we must confess we feel loth to set aside, we would, on the 
two-fold novelty of the occasion, address a few words to our sub- 
scribers, either in reference to the volume we are just opening or 
to the one we have but now closed. First, then, turning the cur- 
rent of our thoughts back upon matters past, the restrospect reminds 
us that we can hardly do less than make a low bow to our good 
“ Contributors,” who, having the interests of veterinary science at 
heart, and determined not to see their “ould” Journal in these hard 
times in want of aliment, have steadily given it their support through 
the turbulent and perilous year of 1849. The “ bad times,” — we with 
pain make the announcement, — have lighted heavily in places, we 
fear, upon veterinary practitioners in the country. The railways, 
the depressed state of agriculture, the contracted sporting meetings 
and transactions, have all tended to rob the veterinary surgeon of 
clients. “ Good times,” they tell us, “ are coming,” however; a 
prophecy we should be sorry to throw cold water upon by asking 
how or in what way it is expected they will or can benefit veteri- 
nary surgeons. And so we will, for a moment, indulge in the 
belief of what we hear, and essay to discover how such foretold 
