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candour and honour require it from us. Our readers may be 
assured tliat those were anxious meetings, when all this was 
discussed. 
The upshot was that, at present, the co-editorship should be 
offered to our friends, Messrs. Castley and Karkeek. No begging 
and praying w^as to be used, nor had they been used with Mr. 
Dick: the thing was to be stated in a plain straightforward 
way—the cause was good, and w'e were paying a compliment to 
those we addressed. 
Our letter found Castley on a sick-bed—so ill, that it was read 
to him only by piece-meal, and he had not the power to indite a 
reply. That was the unsuspected cause of the disarrangement 
of our plan in the last number. On the day on which his name 
ivould have appeared at the head of the list of the editors of 
The Veterinarian — the S\st of December, 1832— the pub¬ 
lishing day—he died. 
Our friend Karkeek’s prompt and welcome answer is inserted 
in the present number, page 85. 
If, however, we were gratified when we had obtained the 
names of Karkeek and Dick, our wishes grew with our pos¬ 
sessions, and we wanted to add yet another name ; or, rather, 
we felt that there was a duty which in point of courtesy, as 
well as in accordance with our own inclinations and the interest 
of our work and the advantage of the profession, we had to 
perform. We had stated in our December number, that, in our 
opinion, “ we had arrived at that desired point when controversy 
—ill-tempered controversy at least—may begin to cease among 
us (w’e will explain our meaning in this assertion presently)— 
we could not give a more satisfactory proof of our sincerity, 
than by offering to include the name of Professor Coleman in 
our list of Editors ; at the same time, however, assuring him, 
that the end and object of The Veterinarian,— the re¬ 
form and progress of the profession,—would not be for a mo¬ 
ment abandoned, but, we were convinced, would now be best 
promoted by union among its friends, and by a freer communi¬ 
cation of individual discovery and improvement. 
The answer is recorded in page 87. We will only say, that 
