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will be spared to render that abstract more or less copious, ac • 
cording to the nature of the subject, and always correct. A few 
of the essays may likewise occasionally appear. 
The Lectures on Comparative Pathology will certainly be re- 
sumed, and continued without interruption. An intercourse with 
several of the continental schools has been opened, and will be 
maintained. 
Our long-tried and valued Correspondents, who have made 
The V eteri n aria n what it is, and who are worn in our hearts’ 
core, ay, in our “ heart of hearts,” they will not forget the 
periodical which they have nursed to deserved reputation and 
sterling value — we will say this, because we are speaking of them 
far more than of ourselves — they will not forget us. One storm, 
and that which threatened to wreck the character and almost 
the existence of our profession, is lulled, never again to rage. 
Our scientific discussions in this periodical or elsewhere, we do 
not say that they should be carried on with a coldness and apathy 
unworthy of their importance, and of our deep sense of it ; but let 
them not degenerate into a rudeness of expression and rancour of 
feeling, disgraceful to us and the cause which we espouse. Do not 
let some of our correspondents be offended ; but there is a little 
reason for this hint ; they will profit by it, and we will act upon it. 
Ere we shall have met again — a something more with the 
greater part of us than a mere visionary meeting — the peculiar 
season of festivity and good humour and good feeling will have 
commenced. Before that, our readers, and our valued corre- 
spondents will have a time of comparative leisure, but after that, 
for some month or two, they will have more than enough to do. 
Most of us will probably keep the old and rightly cherished cus- 
tom at Christmas tide — we shall have those around us whom we 
love most, and we shall knit still closer those ties which give to 
life its chief value ; yet, although, happy in his own domestic cir- 
cle, is there a man who will notlook a little or a great way beyond, 
and think of those, and mentally at least enumerate them, whom 
he includes in his kindly regards and best wishes ? Some of our 
readers, perhaps, will then think of the profession to which they 
belong, and of The Veterinarian as connected, however 
humbly, with the weal and onward progress of that profession. 
To the toast which they will pledge, let them fancy that they 
hear a responsive voice wishing to them the prosperity which 
they merit, and perhaps a little more emphatically designating 
those who have employed an hour or two of that comparative 
but temporary leisure to which we have alluded in giving us the 
assurance which admits of no mistake, that we shall continue to 
be supported, while we endeavour to deserve it, 
