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Society.’^ I wish that there had not been a damper immediately 
following this, viz. that he must be forgiven if he feared that the 
scheme would not answer so well as the Society expected.” If 
the Professor will kindly convince the Society of this, they will 
go elsewhere. 
Grateful, however, for the concession which the Professor has 
made, and if he does devote himself to the accomplishment 
of the purposes of the Society, the writer of this article pledges 
himself that, neither as Editor of this Journal, nor as Chairman 
of the Veterinary Sub-Committee of the Society, will he do any 
thing to annoy : but, rather, will he try to propitiate, and to please 
and to hasten the arrival of that period when they may be fellow- 
labourers in the promotion of a good cause. But the anony¬ 
mous slandering ? Why ! in such case, it, and something else, 
should be considered as a misconception both of meaning and 
of fact, or should be no more remembered. Y. 
We are proud to know that our Journal has found its way to 
the German continental schools, and is held in some estimation 
by them. Herr G. W. Schrader has published in the Berlin 
Veterinary Journal an analysis of our number for March last. 
We cannot resist the temptation of copying his introductory 
remarks. We should not have dared to have written what he 
has kindly said of us and for us. We thank him ; and some of 
our readers —some intimately connected with us, and for whom 
we feel the truest esteem and the warmest gratitude—must not, 
will not be offended. 
“ In spite of many annoyances and many attempts to impede 
its progress, or do away with it altogether, this periodical has, 
by the prudence and talent of its editor, Mr. Youatt, nobly 
maintained its ground ; while “The Farrier,”“ The Hippiatrist,” 
“The Centaur,” and other works of a similar tendency, have 
been long since forgotten. Until the fifth volume, Messrs. Per- 
civall and Youatt were the sole editors ; and then Professor 
Dick, of Edinburgh, and Mr. Karkeek, V.S., at Truro, were 
added as co-editors. But it does not appear as if they gained 
much assistance by these gentlemen ; for it is but seldom that we 
find any thing of their’s in the numbers ; and the communications 
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