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EDITORIAL REMARKS. 
tedious, and wearisome observation of events and circumstances, 
such as they present themselves in respect to the living body, be 
it in health or be it in disease. The medical inquirer will first 
have to note normal phenomena, then anormal, and afterwards 
such as are the results of any remedies he may have employed for 
the removal of the latter. Nor will his duties end here. For he 
will have, in recording such phenomena, to theorize or give rea¬ 
sons for their appearing and changing under such and such cir¬ 
cumstances, and so, to the extent that he is able, unravel Nature’s 
thread of mystic workings. Mr. Haycock shews himself in the 
character of a close observer, and a keen one. Observations and 
results such as he has treasured up, in the course of many years 
of practice, in time will be found to turn out the foundation stones 
upon which alone can be built up the science and practice of 
veterinary pathology. 
We are at a loss to know what Mr. Cox means by “ the special 
examinations which have lately been brought before us in your 
Journal*.” We would remind him, there has been but one occa¬ 
sion on which the Veterinary Examiners have met especially for 
the examination of candidates for diplomas : and that was in 
the case of the late Mr. King, of Stanmore, and of Mr. Arthur 
Cherry, the present Registrar of the College. “ Specials,” as both 
these gentlemen acknowledgedly were, we do not suppose Mr. 
Cox will for a moment question their qualifications as veterinary 
surgeons; or presume to say that either of these gentlemen—al¬ 
though one bore at the time of his examination the venerable 
marks of age upon him—did not ivell merit the honours thus 
“ specially” conferred upon him. And in neither case was any 
secresy or smuggling employed ; both their examinations being 
notified at the time, in the usual form, in The VETERINARIAN. 
And as for the accusation against the Council, that “ they are 
passing persons contrary to the by-laws,” it is too palpably ab¬ 
surd to merit reply. 
See his Letter at page 137. 
