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he exhibited. We have the pleasure of presenting this docu- 
ment also to our readers. 
To this followed the dinner, to which most of those that were 
present did full justice ; and, after this, whether we regard the 
toasts proposed, or the manner in which they were responded to, 
a few pleasanter hours were never spent. There was not one 
expression of unkindly feeling from noon until the latest hour of 
night. May it be a pledge of the future proceedings of the pro- 
fession ! 
We had here a better opportunity of observing the appearance 
and conduct of the pupils, and never could the session of in- 
struction open more auspiciously. So may it ever be ; and so 
will it be, if the student can be led to comprehend that he has 
little or nought to do with, and can imperfectly comprehend, the 
varying politics of the passing day, but that his duty lies, ex- 
clusively in the Theatre , the Hospital, and the Dissecting- 
room . 
We have since had the pleasure of attending one of the meet- 
ings of the Committee of the Veterinary Medical Association. 
The plan which they have determined to adopt of confining the 
distribution of their Journal to those alone who belong to the 
Association, or are graduated members of the profession, has 
never been fully carried into execution by any medical or scien- 
tific journal, nor do we think that it can be. 
Our friend Professor Morton, who, if it is in the power of any 
one to accomplish this Herculean task, will effect it, has, on our 
motion, been appointed Editor of this Periodical. That he may 
fully succeed in promoting the onward progress of our art in his 
own way, or in that which circumstances may force upon him, is 
our ardent wish. The advertisement of the Association is most 
readily inserted. 
In the meantime our Periodical shall be conducted on the 
plan that it has hitherto been, and on which all other periodicals 
of the kind are conducted. 
We may, perhaps, have occasionally developed somewhat more 
of the secrets of our prison-house than we ought to have done. 
The editors of periodicals that have reference to the human being 
are liable to the same charge. In the Lancet, the Medical 
Gazette, and other journals of a similar character, the mode of 
