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bably, would have storms to encounter; and pirates, under the names of 
quacks and ignorant pretenders, would cross their track, or, perchance, en- 
deavour to run them down. But let them hold on their way. Their hearts 
tough and stout as the oak of their bark, and the compass of honour and 
honesty ever their guide, he was sure, from what he had seen of them yes- 
terday and to-day, that he should hear of them all again, worthy of the name 
they had borne, and the cause they had espoused. He would beg to propose 
the healths of them all. 
The Croupier returned thanks for the too flattering compliments which had 
been bestowed upon them. 
Mr. Dick said, there was a toast which had been too long overlooked, — 
“ The health of Professor Low, and prosperity to agriculture.” He begged 
to state, that the learned Professor would have been present, had he not been 
unavoidably detained in the country. 
Mr. Burn Murdoch then proposed — “ Good night,” and the company sepa- 
rated, having spent the evening in the utmost harmony and cordiality. 
REVIEW. 
Ne quid falsi dicere audeat, ne quid veri non audeat. — C icero. 
A Register of Experiments, Anatomical, Physiological, and 
Pathological, performed on living Animals, by JAMES TURNER. 
Longman and Co. 
OUR ever active and highly valued friend is again in the field. 
In his early days at the Veterinary College he imbibed the doc- 
trines, “ the great fundamental principles regarding the blood,” 
which it were heresy then to doubt. He believed, in common 
with every student of human and of veterinary medicine, in the 
identity of muscular contraction and fibrinous coagulation — he jiot 
only traced the influence of the blood on every part, but he re- 
garded it as an organized living body, and the peculiar seat in 
which the vitality of the whole system resided. In riper years, 
however, although he still adhered to the grand principles of his 
great master, yet he began first to doubt the legitimacy of the 
conclusions which were drawn from certain experiments, he 
objected to the manner in which some of the experiments were 
conducted. By degrees he began to question the soundness even 
of the principles themselves, and to fall back into the ranks of the 
older physiologists, and again caught a glimpse of the more subtle 
fluid, which these philosophers of other days used to imagine that 
they saw traversing the various vessels — “ the bright red, thin 
and transparent vapour — the blood steam,” which is productive of 
so many important effects in the animal economy. Many slow 
thinkers and timid reasoners, of which the writer of the present 
