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truly and as warmly as if his donation had been extended to that 
amount. We should be faithless to ourselves and him if we did 
not go on and prosper;’’ for, except our zeal cools, or we are 
careless or unprincipled enough to let discord creep in among 
us, the success which has attended our early labours foretels, 
without the possibility of disappointment, “ the brightening 
march of science.” 
We were pleased, on the first night of our meeting this session, 
to hear the names of seven practitioners announced as candidates 
for admission into the Association. One hundred and twenty- 
one were previously on our list. Our main strength consists in 
the increasing number of practitioners. Located on soils and in 
climates so different as the various districts of our country pre¬ 
sent,—with such powerful predispositions to health or to dis¬ 
ease in our domesticated animals, according to the soil and the 
climate, the food and the general treatment—the same disease 
assuming such dissimilar forms, and demanding such different or 
almost opposite treatment—what an increasing fund of invaluable 
information might we gradually—rapidly, we would rather say 
—collect. Interesting facts of this nature would not be merely 
recorded in a periodical, none of the readers of which might, 
perchance, animadvert upon them, and establish their truth, 
or still further elucidate their value, but they would be read be¬ 
fore a meeting of practitioners and of students, some of whom 
would always be found to confirm, or to amend, or to shew the 
error of the statement. How advantageous must this be to the 
veterinary surgeon of extensive and, perhaps, peculiar practice, 
and far distant from those whom he with confidence could con¬ 
sult, or having none to whom he may be able to bring himself to 
open his mind. 
Is there any one of our brethren in the country who will not, 
in the course of his practice, find the following law, the 3()th, 
applicable to his case?—** Any communication they may be 
pleased to make in or connected with veterinary science will be 
gladly received by the Association, which will, in return, debate 
on any disputed point on which they may wish to have its opinion, 
and which opinion shall be transmitted to them by the secretary ” 
VO I.. XI. (; 
