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EDITORIAL OBSERVATIONS. 
viz. by contributing in aid of the support of those nearest and 
dearest to the valued deceased. 
It may not be known to all of the veterinary profession of our 
own country, that M. Dupuy was Senior Professor at the Alfort 
(or Paris) Veterinary School, and Director of the School at Tou- 
louse ; besides being Editor of a Veterinary Journal — Journal 
Pratique de Medecine Veterinaire, consacre a l' etude des Maladies 
Sporadiques ; and author of a work on “the Existence of Inter- 
mittent Fevers in Animals,” &c. &c. ; and that M. Rodet, in addi- 
tion to being Co-editor of a Veterinary Journal, was author of “The 
Doctrine of Physiology as applied to Veterinary Medicine” — “An 
Analytical Treatise on Veterinary Legal Medicine” — “ A Treatise 
on Cattle Medicine” — “ Researches on the Nature and Causes of 
Glanders” — “The Elements of Military Veterinary Medicine,” 
&c. 
It appears by the “ Circular” that the number of veterinary 
surgeons in France is 2500; — perhaps we may compute our vete- 
rinary countrymen at little more than half this number; — and that, 
in order to put it in the power of them all to participate in the 
“ good work,” the Society have set the snbscription so low as one 
franc (10d.), without, however, desiring to baulk the good inten- 
tions of those who may wish to exceed that sum. This, it would 
seem, the members of the National and Central Society have in 
no small degree done, since their united donations — though we are 
not informed of their numbers — amount to 360 francs (£15). 
With these facts before us, suppose we were to fix our donation 
at five shillings ( six francs) each. This might amount, in the 
aggregate, to a good round sum ; while the fixture at which the 
subscription was set would, by staying the hand of him who felt 
inclined to give more, keep off any unpleasant feelings of rivalry 
in so pious an undertaking. We, however, have no wish to dic- 
tate to the appointed Committee. On the contrary, with every 
respect for the old proverb, that “ in the multitude of councillors 
there is wisdom,” we shall feel it our duty to render them our 
feeble aid in carrying out any resolutions to which they may 
finally agree. 
