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THE VETERINARIAN, JANUARY 1, 1861. 
Ne quid falsi dicere audeat, ne quid veri non audeat. — Cicero. 
THE ANNUAL ADDRESS OF THE EDITORS. 
“ Man flies from time, and time from man. Too soon 
In sad divorce this double flight must end. 
And then where are we ?” 
“ Where is the fable of the former years ? 
Thrown down the gulf of time; as far from thee 
As they had ne’er been thine.” 
The return of certain periods brings with them the return 
of corresponding duties. Among these periods none, perhaps, 
are more momentous than the beginning of a new year, and 
few duties are more important than a review of the past. 
The moralist has told us— 
“’Tis greatly wise to talk with our past hours.” 
Not to wffiine over their loss, so much as to cause us to make 
fair resolves for the future, and to bend every energy for the 
improvement of the present, as that alone is ours. 
Entering upon the editorial labours of this, the seventh 
volume of the Journal, since the direction thereof has fallen 
into our hands, we may be permitted to offer a few T ex¬ 
planations. We did not hurriedly take upon ourselves the 
task, neither did w T e seek it; yet we cannot say its duties were 
altogether novel to us. Still we have at times felt the difficulty 
of our position, and occasionally a fear lest we should fail to 
give satisfaction to our readers, and to realise, in its fullest 
extent, the conducting of a work calculated pre-eminently to 
advance the interests of the profession with which we have 
been for a very long time so intimately associated. We, 
however, felt convinced, from the manner in which the pro- 
