THE EDITOR. 
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experiment in the hope of still accomplishing their noble object. 
He who had been leagued with from the commencement would 
be the first to wish them success, and the first to retire when 
their object could be accomplished in a surer way and by better 
men. It will never be his fault if the good feeling which had 
subsisted between him and the members of the Association is 
interrupted ; at the same time he must confess, that there were 
some circumstances and times when he somewhat marvelled at 
uncalled-for petulance and even abuse. Many irregularities were 
to be expected, considering the strange occurrences that were oc- 
casionally taking place hostile to study and becoming conduct. 
May a happier destiny await the proceedings of the new Asso- 
ciation ! 
The Editor, however, much regrets the allusion to, if not the 
pledge of, the confinement of the knowledge of the proceedings 
of the Association to the subscribers. This is not, and cannot 
come to, good. It belongs to that system of exclusiveness under 
which all science speedily languishes, and too often droops and 
dies. Let this be calmly but deeply weighed before it is adopted. 
Let it not be even suspected that the system of secresy which 
belongs alone to the ignorant man and the mere pretender can 
ever disgrace our profession. The Editor, perhaps, has no right 
to go farther than to appeal to the expressed opinion of the nu- 
merous friends whose letters have enriched the present number ; 
and to add, that he has availed himself of opportunities that have 
occurred during the last two months to obtain the opinion of 
many of those who deservedly stand at the head of the medical 
profession. Not one has hesitated for a moment in the answer 
which he gave, and the advice which he earnestly pressed on the 
inquirer, on no consideration to blast for ever the rising prospects 
of our profession. 
During the remaining months of the present year The V ete- 
rinarian and the Association will be still united. At the ex- 
piration of that period, the debates of the latter will have been 
all reported. The Veterinarian will then return to its bulk 
and price in 1837, and possibly to that estimation, and to that 
sale, of which it then could boast, but which yearly diminished 
from that period. Every year was then attended by an increase 
of subscribers, but from the summer of 1837 by a diminution 
of them. The Editor states not this because he cared about this 
diminution while the object which he had at heart was accom- 
plishing, but as answer to certain observations which should 
never have escaped the lips of the utterer. 
He has been promised support by those who have never yet 
deceived him, who never will deceive, and whose names are an 
honour to our profession. 
There will be no occasion for ill-feeling between the supporters 
