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dispels the mists of ignorance, and error gives place to 
truth. 
It is extremely gratifying to find that our division of me¬ 
dicine is thus gradually becoming more and more appreciated. 
Not only are its recognised practitioners, graduates of the 
Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons, dispersed throughout 
the British Isles and their dependencies, but in the present 
number it will be seen that America is becoming more 
awake to its importance, and one from out our more imme¬ 
diate circle, Mr. H. Corby, has located himself in a city in 
the far south-west of the United States, on the mighty 
Mississippi. 
We doubt not of his success, knowing his abilities, and 
accept this his first contribution as an earnest of many that 
are to follow, anticipating others as subjects of more than ordi¬ 
nary interest may from time to time come under his notice. 
Nor is it from his pen only that we have proof of the in¬ 
terest that is felt, and the advancement that is being made, in 
veterinary science, in that vast and rich continent, peopled as 
it is with the Anglo-Saxon race,and speaking one common lan¬ 
guage. To others we are indebted, as the present number like¬ 
wise shows, and we are pleased to be enabled thus to express 
our acknowledgments, as we have but one common object in 
view, and science, like a commonwealth,knows no distinctions, 
but requires that each should contribute towards the general 
weal, since each will be alike benefited by so doing. When it is 
remembered that our journal finds its way, not only to North 
America, but to India, Australia, New Zealand—as also seen 
in the present number,—and wherever veterinary medi¬ 
cine is practised, both at home and on the continent of 
Europe; and that from all these sources we receive matter 
for its pages, it cannot fail to afford us high gratification, 
while at the same time it shows the marked progress that 
is taking place. 
If this is not allowed to be an age of invention or discovery ? 
it is, without controversy, as we have already said, one of pro¬ 
gress ; and the meanest affairs of life, equally with the noblest 
works of utility and elegance, are indebted to science, either 
