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EDITORIAL OBSERVATIONS. 
"Wilson, Withers, and Woodger, and also many personal 
friends, and members of the medical profession. 
It is most gratifying to observe the growing interest 
which attaches to these annual reunions, and we trust that 
thev are to be taken both as an evidence of an established 
unity in the profession, and an assurance of its progress. 
The veterinary profession stands in a far more elevated 
position than formerly, and its practice is now closely watched 
by the public, and especially by the agricultural portion of 
it, than was wont to be the case. We hail this with satis¬ 
faction, believing that the more our proceedings are scruti¬ 
nised by the agriculturist, the more will he appreciate the 
man of science in his treatment of disease. Quackery and 
presumption, and the mere routine of practice, must recede 
before the march of intellect, and it will be well with us when 
these have been entirely driven from the yards and pastures 
of the proprietors of cattle and sheep. Long since they 
would have disappeared had the instructions of the College, 
from its foundation, been extended to other animals besides 
the horse, and had also methods been adopted to enlighten the 
minds of the occupiers of our soil. These too long neglected 
means are now in full operation, and each succeeding year will 
but witness their increasing good effects. Hand in hand, how¬ 
ever, must they advance, or no real advantage will be reaped 
by either. An educated agriculturist is as much a matter of 
necessity for his own and his country's benefit, as is a 
scientific veterinary surgeon for the arresting of the flood- 
tide of empiricism, in the application of its dogmas to the 
well being of domesticated animals. The force of circum¬ 
stances may call for still greater improvement in the 
education of both, and we venture to hope that in the day 
of need the student of veterinary medicine will not be left 
unprovided or uncared for. Much might be written, and 
that profitably, upon a subject of this kind, but as our space 
is already too greatly trenched upon, we close our remarks by 
urging the pupils of the present day to give good heed to 
their instructions, and to avail themselves of the advantages 
they now enjoy. 
We had written thus much when the following came to 
hand. We readily give place to it. 
