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in the way of success is the peril from dogs. Our towns are full 
of worthless dogs, and it is found impossible to prevent their 
cruel slaughter of our sheep in pastures. A few weeks ago a 
neighbour placed one hundred sheep on a farm near to Lakeside, 
and in one night twenty-seven of them were cruelly bitten, 
killed, driven into the lake, or drowned. Several of them swam 
across the lake, and were found exhausted in the woods on the 
opposite shore. For all this damage he will receive only about 
one hundred dollars from the county. We need more stringent 
dog laws. The license should be raised to five dollars for 
keeping a dog, and the penalty for not obtaining a license should 
be greater than now. If farmers will unite in securing from the 
legislature more stringent laws, sheep raising can be resumed in 
New England with profit.” 
SCIENCE IN THE WITNESS-BOX. 
To the Editor of the Journal of Science. 
Sir, — The following extradl from the “ Magazine of Pharmacy” 
may be of some importance to your readers, since it evidently 
applies not merely to the medical profession, but to chemists, 
engineers, microscopists, and other scientific men whose un- 
pleasant duty it may ever become to give evidence in a court of 
justice : — 
“ A high compliment has been paid by Mr. Justice Stephen to 
the medical profession of Leeds. It appears that Dr. Allbutt, of 
that town, and Mr. Stotter, of Wakefield, gave evidence recently 
at the Leeds Assizes, before Mr. Justice Stephen, relative to the 
injuries which a young lady had received in an accident on the 
Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway. At the close of the case his 
lordship said that the medical evidence of these two gentlemen 
was a pattern of what such evidence should be. He was in the 
habit of hearing medical evidence in all parts of the country, 
and Leeds was the only town where he never heard those un- 
seemly disputes between the legal and medical professions which 
occurred constantly at other places. Here there was a certain 
number of gentlemen, the leaders of the medical profession in 
the Great School of Medicine in Leeds, who had set an admirable 
example for many years past of truth and candour and straight- 
forwardness in the witness-box, and he was happy to see that 
their example was being followed by the younger members of the 
profession. When a man really tried to tell the truth, the whole 
truth, and nothing but the truth, in plain and simple language, 
notwithstanding what consequences might be drawn from it, or 
