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English ophthalmic surgeons . It will give prominence to, and 
extended notices of, the additions constantly being made in 
this special department of the profession among our country¬ 
men. At present there is no national organ of discussion in 
which native worth is allowed fairly to compete with foreign 
genius and pretension. The Journal of British Ophthal¬ 
mology is therefore projected to supply the much required 
medium for the interchange of individual opinion, in the 
freest course of which real progress can only be expected to 
make good and certain way. Wherever this is active and 
honest, it will always be accompanied with a desire to bring 
experience, the basis of all knowledge, under the critical 
notice of others less interested than the immediate agents 
engaged, so that the true value of suggestions made, or 
treatment adopted, shall satisfactorily appear in the dis¬ 
cussions raised.” . . 
The work will contain original articles and cases, reports 
of hospital and other practice, reviews and critical notices of 
books and papers, with correspondence and other matters 
relating to ophthalmology, British and foreign. It is well 
got up, printed on tinted paper, and liberally illustrated with 
woodcuts. 
THE YORKSHIRE VETERINARY MEDICAL 
ASSOCIATION. 
OFFICIAL REPORT* 
The quarterly meeting of this Association was held at the Unicorn 
Hotel, Ripon, October 10th, at 3 p.rn. The President Mr. E. C. 
Dray, occupied the chair; there were also present Messrs. Fryer, 
Seeker and Carter, Vice-Presidents; Richard Lord, Treasurer, and 
William Williams, Hon. Secretary; Mr. T. Greaves, Manchester, 
President of the Lancashire Association ; MacTaggart, Halifax ; Ed¬ 
mondson, Ilarmby via Bedale ; Pratt, Masham; Paterson, Dews¬ 
bury ; Bale, Otley; Horne, Barnsley ; Broughton and Cuthbert, 
Leeds; Thomas Seeker, Ripon, and Taylor, Wetherby. After the 
preliminary business, viz., the reconsidering of the rules, &c., had 
been transacted, Mr. Fryer read a highly practical paper “ On Hernia,” 
this gentleman having met with numerous cases of hernia in its 
several forms in his practice, and having been most successful in 
his method of operating. Previous to the reading of the paper the 
President made some remarks on the subject, observing that he felt 
confident they should have from the essayist a most valuable and 
