52 REVIEW— TRAVELS IN THE HIMALAYAN PROVINCES. 
community. It will lose some of its interest in the eyes of the 
veterinary body from not having had the benefit of Mr. Moor- 
croft’s correction. The manner in which, however. Professor 
Wilson has executed what must have been a most difficult task 
is highly creditable to him, and the profession will not, I am sure, 
withhold from him their thanks. The following is his sketch of 
Mr. Moorcroft’s character as a traveller : — 
“ In many respects he was most eminently qualified, and was 
not to be surpassed in determination, hardihood, endurance, and 
spirit of enterprise. His scientific attainments were strictly pro- 
fessional, and he had neither the preparatory training nor the 
means to investigate profoundly the mysteries of nature. Neither 
was he an oriental scholar or an antiquarian, although he had a 
practical use of some of the dialects of the East, and took a ready 
interest in the remains of antiquity which he encountered. His 
chief objects were, on all occasions, rural economy and manufac- 
tures, as he entertained a notion that much was to be learned in 
both from the natives of the East as well as to be communicated 
to them.” 
No one among us can arise from the perusal of this journal 
without feeling his heart glow within him, that its author was a 
veterinary surgeon. It is one of the few contributions emanat- 
ing from our body to the general literature of our country. May 
they soon be more ! Many of us, especially those connected with 
the army, may draw many useful lessons from it; passing 
through tracts of country of which oftentimes but little is known, 
they might collect much information of value to their brethren ; 
nor can we better impress the necessity of a more extended edu- 
cation than that hitherto adopted than by referring to this journal, 
which, had Moorcroft possessed that which many of us may now 
obtain, would have been without a fault. 
T. W. Mayer, V.S., Newcastle-under -Lyne. 
White’s Compendium of Cattle Medicine . Sixth edition. Re- 
arranged, with copious notes and additions, by Mr. W. C. 
Spooner. 
White’s Cattle Medicine, the last of his works, has always 
ranked high in the opinion of the public. In process of time, 
however, other authors, possessed of more extensive advantages, 
and giving to their works a more scientific as well as practical 
form, entered the field. It was natural for the proprietors of the 
first work to endeavour to maintain an honourable rivalry with 
the others, by keeping pace with that rapid increase of knowledge 
which has given to veterinary writers a charm and a value not 
