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professional man has it in his power to collect any facts suffi¬ 
ciently numerous to come to any useful account; and too many of 
these few are disregarded : had this not but too manifestly been 
the case, lam sure I should not have presumed to offer to the 
veterinary world the scanty catalogue hereunto subjoined. 
Under present circumstances, f do so in the hope that it may lead 
to similar inquiries, and to more general and correct results. 
I do not look upon it as any argument against such experi¬ 
ments, much less as any information (although, I believe, it is 
an answer under which the veterinarian is too apt to shelter him¬ 
self against further inquiry), to say, that growth in horses, as 
in all other animals, must be extremely variable, and depend on 
a variety of circumstances ; some of which are demonstrable, 
others not. I conceive it useful to ascertain the maximum and 
minimum of growth within certain periods, to particularize or 
rather characterize the subjects, and to detail the apparent cir¬ 
cumstances, by which investigation alone, conducted on a large 
scale, can we hope to arrive at the desired conclusions. 
The number of horses experimentalized on by me amounted, 
in all, only to twenty-one. I give the results more with a view 
of their turning out to be the fore-runner of some account on a 
more enlarged scale than of their proving in themselves worthy 
(from their paucity) of any great deal of attention. So far as 
they go, I can answer for their accuracy. 
Between the 5 til and Qth years , one horse had, in the 8th 
month, not grown at all; a second, in the 9th month, had grown 
If inches ; a third, in the 11th, half an inch. 
Between the 4th and 5th years, of twelve horses measured, the 
maximum of growth was found to be one inch in six months ; the 
minimum nothing; making an average of one inch per annum. 
Between the 3 d and 4th years, of six horses measured, the 
average was found to be the same. 
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THE VETERINARIAN, MAY 1 , 1830 . 
Ne quid falsi dicere audeat, ne quid veri non audeat.— Cicero. 
On the 22d ultimo, was held the Second Annnal Meeting of 
Veterinary Practitioners. The weather on that and the preceding 
day was unpropitious, and prevented the presence of many from 
the suburbs and the country / who had expressed their intention 
