EDITORIAL OBSERVATIONS. 
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VETERINARY MEDICAL ASSOCIATION. 
The Silver Medals of the society for the session 1851-2, 
have been awarded to,— 
Mr. J. Orme Dudfield (of Gloucester), for his essay upon 
“ The Descriptive Anatomy of the Muscles immediately 
engaged in affecting the Respiratory movements of the Chest, 
in the Horse, Ox, and Dog;” 
And to Mr. N. B. Yon. Ennzelmann, for his preparation 
of “A Section of the Head of the Ox, showing the blood¬ 
vessels injected ;” 
Both these gentlemen being students of the first session 
at the Royal Veterinary College. 
THE VETERINARIAN, DECEMBER 1, 1852. 
Ne quid falsi dicere audeat, ne quid veri non audeat.— Cicero. 
One of the difficulties besetting the path of an Editor of 
a periodical print,—though it be a minor one, and one that 
does not often happen to stand in our way, yet one which 
grows in magnitude with the extension of the period assigned 
to the reappearance of his journal, be it weekly, monthly, or 
quarterly,—is the apportioning the bulkiness or lengthiness of 
his articles to the limits set by usage or prescription to 
his publication. To divide an article into parts, “to be 
continued,” is never desirable, neither is it at all times con¬ 
sistent with the nature of the composition, and it becomes 
the less so in proportion as the interval grows greater 
between the reappearance of the numbers of the journal 
itself. And, to make any one single number up of all “origi¬ 
nal,” or all “ extracted,” or any other one class of material, 
would be certain to disappoint, perhaps to offend, its readers.^ 
Into some such dilemma as this, our subscribers will perceive 
we have this month been thrown by Professor Simonds; 
