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ON THE ADMISSION OF MR. BULL’S 
LETTER. 
To the Editors of “ The Veterinarian.” 
Newcastle, August 15th, 1842. 
My dear Sirs, — I have been hesitating for some time what 
course is the most proper for trie to pursue under the circum- 
stances I find m 
in your Journal. 
The fact is, that I was called upon by some influential mem- 
bers of the profession to answer Mr. Bull’s communication. I 
declined doing so for the reasons stated in my former letter ; but 
I, at the same time, readily assented to communicate with the 
Editors of The Veterinarian, in order that I might contra- 
dict the statements made, and inform them of the opinions held 
by many of the profession on the insertion of that communi- 
cation. 
Having published an answer to my letter without having in- 
serted the letter itself, I feel myself in duty bound to those for 
whom and with whom I acted to request that you will publish 
my letter in your next Number. Whatever statements you have 
made, or intend to make, will then have their due weight and 
influence. 
With kind regards, 
I remain, 
Your’s truly, 
Thos. W. Mayer. 
yself placed in by the non-insertion of my letter 
To the Editors of (i The Veterinarian.” 
Gentlemen, — Happy as I am at all times to afford' to every 
member of my profession any information I possess on subjects 
which have been prominently brought before them, and severely 
commented upon in the last number of your Journal, yet, in 
this instance, l feel that I should be degrading myself, and by 
no means advancing the cause I have so much at heart, were 1 
to offer any remarks on a communication containing such false- 
hoods and misrepresentations, both so uncourteous and personal 
towards myself and others, as Mr. Bull’s. I cannot nor will not 
place myself in the lists with a man of whom it may be said that, 
“Abusive words step into his defence. 
And fill up all the mighty void of sense.” 
