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science or art. And it seems to us a measure so well calculated to 
meet the end it has in view, that we should rejoice to see some 
regulations of the kind introduced into our own military medical 
and veterinary departments. We have already had implanted 
into the subordinate ranks of our army emulative honours in the 
shape of good-conduct stripes, and meritorious-service pensions and 
medals ; and so far as the experiment has been tried, the honorary 
introduction appears to have worked well. It is true, that veteri- 
nary surgeons of the British army will bear no sort of comparison 
in point of number with those of the 60,000 cavalry of the French ; 
but then our cavalry horses are more valuable than theirs — of more 
consequence therefore to the state to have preserved : added to 
which, a prize essay once a year from the army veterinary sur- 
geons might prove no ordinary fdlip to professors of hippiatric 
science in general. 
The reader will remember that the First Volume of these 
“ Memoirs and Observations” came under our notice last December ; 
and that we then culled some useful extracts, as lengthy as our 
space would on the occasion admit, cutting our account short, 
through compulsion, by promising at some future time to look 
over the veterinary prize essay, to which the gold medal for the 
year was awarded, on the subject of “ Farcy.” This we still 
mean to do. But, that we may not break through the thread of 
our present inquiry, it will be imperative to proceed, first, with 
The Second Volume. 
This commences its “ Introduction” with the announcement that 
“ the grave events of 1848 have not hindered the Sanitary Committee 
from accomplishing the mission intrusted to them by the Secretary 
at War. In the midst of the general tumult its business has never 
been suspended ; insomuch that they feel no hesitation in declaring 
this (their) Second Volume to be nowise inferior to the First. 
The veterinary surgeons’ reports shew a notable diminution in 
the mortality of the horses of the cavalry, it having fallen during 
the last year from 97 to 64 per 1000 , while they afford reason for 
hoping that this diminution will be still greater, thanks to the 
amelioration of the stables, and to the improvements made in the 
