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EDITORIAL OBSERVATIONS. 
The beginning of another year, both warrants and 
disposes the editors to greet their readers with all cordial 
and becoming wishes. These recurring periods enable us to 
mark the passing away of time, of which the past, the 
present, and the future, are integral parts. It is with the first 
named of these that we have principally now to do, it having 
been our wont to pass in review what has been done during 
the antecedent year, while at the same time the prospect of 
the future has not been unheeded by us. 
It was very gratifying to be compelled to commence the 
past year having matter “ on hand,” and this although we 
had during it increased the size of our journal. It is now 
equally as gratifying, on reviewing our progress, to be 
able to say that throughout the year the same kind support 
has been accorded us. 
Firstly would we allude to those correspondents whose 
contributions have been more or less continuous. Un¬ 
questionably their support lias materially lightened our 
labours and enhanced the worth of our pages, although it 
has not withdrawn the solicitude which is both natural 
and right should be experienced by us, as this ensures the 
careful performance of our duties, and is an incentive to 
increased exertion. 
To Professor Yarn ell we have been often indebted for 
commentations on cases forwarded to him, and especially 
for lucid descriptions of morbid parts sent to the Royal 
Veterinary College, and by him laid before the members of 
the Veterinary Medical Association : thus in more than a 
twofold sense has he benefited the profession. 
Professor Brown has continued his series of valuable 
papers on subjects selected by him, taking the initiative in 
this respect, and in which he has been followed by Mr. 
Dyer, who has given us elaborate papers on the vexed 
question of soundness in horses, coupling the same with the 
mode to be adopted for examining the horse so as to ascertain 
this, and elucidating the same by observations of practical 
worth. The subject is far from exhausted by him, and we 
hope it will result in the eliciting of remarks from others on 
it, so that by the opinions of many members of the profes- 
