EDITORS' REPLY TO MR C. CLARK. 43b 
consist of treatises on practical subjects. “Why,” said a person 
to us a little while ago, of high rank and great influence in the 
country, “ why should you pester us so continually about vour 
College ? The eyes of the public arc sufficiently opened : the 
feeling of the public is sufficiently decisive. Be quiet.—Devote 
your journal to useful practical matter, and, perhaps, before you 
expect it, all will be as you wish.” We will “ be quiet;” except 
that, possibly, we may be compelled to return to some topics 
only slightly hinted at in this article, but of paramount im¬ 
portance. Whatevty we may do, we will continue to do what 
the Looker-on (whose excellent paper enriches some pages of 
our present number)compliments us with doing;—we will “ pursue 
a steady course, and preserve a moderate tone amidst the storms 
which may agitate the veterinary profession.” 
We must apologise for not having room for either Review, or 
Extracts, or the discussion in the Veterinary Medical Society on 
the papers of Messrs. Palmer and Bardell; we have them how¬ 
ever in reserve, together with valuable communications from 
Messrs. Hudson, Karkeek, Pritchard, and Storry, which will 
appear in our next “ Veterinarian.” We invite a continu¬ 
ance of this support, unexpected and most flattering. It will not 
leave us space for much controversy. To that our readers may 
not object; but they must calculate on another probable and not 
distant consequence,—that we must materially increase the pages 
of our Journal. 
JttigceUaneau 
A natural Means by which Ponds situated on Hills , or at a 
Distance from all other Water , may be stocked with Fish. 
THE large water-beetle, which feeds upon the spawn of fish, 
occasionally in the evening climbs up the stems of rushes, 8cc. 
sufficiently high to enable it to take wing. It has been caught 
fly\ n o>. an d on being put into the water has given out the spawn 
which it had eaten previous to taking flight, both in a digested 
and undigested state; and, from the undigested spawn, fish of 
various kinds have been produced, in experiments instituted for 
the purpose.— Edinburgh New Phil. Journal , June 1828; 
IN the laws of Howell the Good, Prince of Wales, is the 
following curious provision to guard the purchaser of horses 
against the frauds of dealers : — 
The buyer was allowed three nights to prove whether the horse 
was free from staggers; three months to prove the soundness of 
