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THE VETERINARIAN, SEPTEMBER 1, 1858. 
Ne quid falsi dicere audeat, ne quid veri non audeat. 
Cicero . 
THE CHESTER MEETING OE THE ROYAL AGRICULTURAL 
SOCIETY. 
The annual meeting of the Royal Agricultural Society is 
an event of even national importance, and, as such, we have 
been accustomed year by year to bring before our readers 
the fullest particulars relative to the award of its prizes for 
the best of our native breeds of domesticated animals. We 
again propose to follow this precedent, but it is necessaiy, 
in the first place, to explain that the meeting at Chester was 
held so late in the month of July, that we were prevented 
giving our ordinary resume in our last number. In every 
respect this reunion was a most successful one, far exceeding 
in the list of its prizes, the number of its entries, and the 
amount of its receipts from visitors, any which had gone 
before it. To such a degree of magnitude have these 
meetings now arrived, that we might even venture to hope 
that the climax has been reached, and that henceforth the 
efforts of the Society will be given rather to the maintenance 
of its present proud position, than to an extension of its 
annual exhibitions. 
We look with peculiar pleasure on its proceedings, because 
we see in them an assurance of the advancement and due 
estimation of our profession. Time was when the services 
of the Veterinary Surgeon were not only not required by 
Agricultural Societies, but were even repudiated. It was 
thought that it was no part of his legitimate sphere to 
examine animals, with a view to substantiate, or otherwise, 
the correctness of their owners’ certificates of age. Men 
were indignant in having it supposed that they had deter- 
