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responsibility, yet are we willing to submit to not only all 
this, but even, if needs be, to much more. 
It will be observed that the portion of the cover usually 
allotted to the names of our contributors having become 
more than full, with the present number we commence a 
second series. May this be even more quickly filled than 
the preceding one has been. 
We believe that the past year’s volume will be found 
to contain matter as interesting as any of the former 
ones. The communications have been neither few nor 
wanting in importance, while the selections made from con¬ 
temporary writers have enabled us to place before our 
readers subjects both varied and useful, by which the pro¬ 
fession might be benefited; whilst, at the same time, it has 
been made acquainted with what is doing in other divisions 
of science connected with veterinary medicine. 
Perhaps we may be permitted to refer to the series of 
papers on Botany, as applied to Veterinary Science/’ by 
Mr. Watson, as a proof of what has just been advanced. At 
the commencement of the volume we hesitated not to 
express our high approval of them, and already we think 
we see in them gleamings forth of their practical usefulness. 
Never does a season pass without some inquiries being 
made which an acquaintance with botany alone enables us 
satisfactorily to answer. 
The translations, &c., from foreign journals have been un¬ 
interruptedly continued by Mr. Ernes. 
The important division of Veterinary Jurisprudence 
has occupied much of our space, and it was only by the use 
of small type, already adverted to, that we were able to find 
room for it. When, however, our Journal is referred to by 
counsel in courts of law, it becomes, in every sense, desirable 
that this section should not be lost sight of. 
It is with some degree of regret that we have been 
again compelled to insert controversial matter. But a limit 
must be put to presumption, and charlatanic schemes must 
not be allowed to go on uncondemned nor unchecked. 
Further, the endeavour to build up a professional reputation 
