59 THE EDITORS* address to their readers. 
This, we trust, will be considered a valuable addition to our 
work. 
Our leading article !—While we are supported as w T e now are, 
and as we will deserve to be, it will not be necessary for us 
often or long to obtrude ourselves in propriis personis before 
the public. The leading articles will be continued ; but they will 
be long or short, and more or less prominent, as subjects may 
present themselves. As much as possible, they will be devoted to 
useful practical matter; but w 7 e shall never lose sight of our 
grand object, the vindication and improvement of our insulted and 
degraded profession. 
The present year commences under mingled favourable and 
threatening auspices. We cannot forget, that, in the year that 
has closed, the Committee of Governors—men respectable and 
honourable, yet labouring under a delusion for wdiich our philoso¬ 
phy and the kindest interpretation of their warmest friends cannot 
account, and showing that they could never have understood, or 
to any essential purpose studied, the true interest of the profes¬ 
sion over whose destiny they preside, have offered to the great 
body of veterinary practitioners two of the most flagrant insults 
which malignity could have devised, or ignorance, folly, or fatuity, 
have carried into execution. They have excluded the veterinary 
practitioner from the Veterinary Examiners’ Board, and have en¬ 
trusted the important duty of determining on the competency 
of the veterinary pupil to members of a different profession, who 
could not possibly know any thing of the matter, and who, feeling 
their insufficiency, candidly, and honourably, and repeatedly, 
but ineffectually, petitioned that some veterinary surgeons should 
be added to their number, to guide and sanction their proceed¬ 
ings ; and, more than this, w T hen the Professor of the Veterinary 
College, whatever different representations of the subject he may 
have been supposed to have given to different persons, or what¬ 
ever may have been said as to his private wishes, felt himself 
compelled publicly to advocate the propriety and necessity of 
such a union. 
Then, as if it w r ere not enough that the veterinary surgeon is 
disgracefully excluded from that board, a place at which, when 
