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by competition. Which of the schools will inaugurate it > I„ 
vva,t,ng for action in this great improvement, we send our greet- 
mgs and best wishes to the new school of the West. 
Le Roi EST Mort-Vive le Roi.—T hese words are the 
closing ones of a farewell address made by our worthy friend 
eorge emmg, to its numerous readers, as editor of the Vet- 
ennary Journal. 
In a long retrospective consideration of the work done by 
the Journal .taking it from its start when the integrity of the 
action of'" C °?°‘' ati0n En ^nd being menaced by a peculiar 
est M- u ° ne °S 6 tCachin& ’ schooIs ft was found necessary to 
establish a publication which would be the organ of the profes¬ 
sion, and following the work undertaken to our days, the ex- 
e itor of the Journal concludes in saying that the task for which 
• the Journal was originally established has been accomplished 
and then announces his retirement from the hard and difficult 
ough in many instances, pleasant work, to which he has given 
so much energy and so much of his talents and time since ,875. 
With the modesty that has characterized the whole profes¬ 
sional life of our old friend, he tells us that though he is “ edito- 
ronally dead, the Journal still lives, possessed of all the 
“ v,taIlt y and scientific spirit, and that under the direction of a 
“ much more competent, but perhaps not more enthusiastic 
„ W ‘ th I ?° re reso urces at command, it will continue its 
useful and independent career.” 
To George Fleming, creator and now ex-editor, we offer our 
colleagual farewell, with our warmest wishes that he may for 
several years to come enjoy the happiness of seeing the Journal 
still receiving the support and the assistance of the En<di s h 
reading profession. 
More Room INSIDE.-Another call for a complimentary 
notice has been made, and the same answer is given—a negative 
one, of course. What 1 is the trade dull ? Are not the flour¬ 
ishing notices of sufficient attraction ? Are the candidates 
