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THE VETERINARIAN, JULY 1, 1859. 
Ne quid falsi dicere audeat, ne quid veri non audeat. 
Cicero. 
PROFESSOR SIMONDS’ REPORT ON THE RINDERPEST. 
The present number contains the conclusion of Professor 
Simonds’ Report on the Rinderpest. 
We have diffused it over a goodly portion of the Journal, 
lest by its length we should weary our readers ; and, indeed, 
for some time we allowed an interruption of its publication 
to occur, until we were solicited to continue it. 
As one may be permitted, even in his editorial office, to 
speak of the doings of another, so we hesitate not to state 
that, in years yet to come, this report will be referred to by 
the members of the veterinary profession with both satisfac¬ 
tion and profit. It alike redounds to the credit both of Mr. 
Simonds and Mr. Ernes, and we think that the Royal Agricul¬ 
tural Society of England was extremely fortunate in obtain¬ 
ing the services of two persons so admirably calculated to ac¬ 
complish their allotted work ; the one possessing scientific 
knowledge, combined with energy of mind and a determina¬ 
tion to acquire all the information that could be obtained; 
the other knowing well the countries through which they 
had to travel, and so familiar with the different languages 
spoken, that without this those pertinent inquiries, so neces¬ 
sary for the eliciting of the truth, could not have been made ; 
while both were practically conversant with the duties of 
their profession, and each was alike imbued with a love of in¬ 
vestigation, and brought to bear, on the facts developed,a mind 
perfectly unprejudiced by any preconceived notions of the 
disease, which to them was perfectly novel in many of its 
characters. 
