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CORRESPONDENCE. 
abstruse papers as some of the German journals—that is its mis¬ 
fortune, not its fault; but I feel that I may claim for it honesty 
and good intentions, and a desire to promote veterinary knowledge. 
It has no need to purloin, neither has it the intention to act dis¬ 
honestly. We, in this miserable, unenlightened country of ours, 
do not pretend to be what we are not, nor do we venture to com¬ 
pare ourselves in some things with the Berlin professors, though 
we think ourselves quite equal in other respects, and these the 
most valuable, after all. But we are sufficiently honest and 
patriotic to confess our shortcomings, and at the same time to 
deny ourselves the questionable gratification of running ourselves 
down—as a nation—in order that we may unduly laud aliens, 
simply because we, personally, have chosen to be educated by 
them. There are good and scientific, as well as honest veterin¬ 
arians in other countries than Germany ; and there is no need to 
be unjust or to say untruthful things, in order that German 
teachers, and an individual who has borrowed some of their 
scientific notions, may thereby be glorified. It is, to say the least 
of it, bad taste which, it is to be hoped, time and fuller experience 
will remedy. In the meantime I will look to you, sir, in exercis¬ 
ing your editorial functions, to correct expressions which you will 
now know to be offensive, as well as unwarrantable, until the 
remedy arrives. 
Believe me to be, Sir, yours most sincerely, 
The Editor of the Veterinary Journal. 
London, April 30, 1879. 
249 Washington St., ) 
Jersey City, May 10th, 1879. } 
Editors American Veterinary Review: 
Gents. —Perhaps the following may be of some interest to 
your readers. I saw this day, in company with Dr. Miller, a cow 
belonging to Mr. Michael Torpey of Hoboken, height fifteen 
hands, weight about fifteen hundred, five years old. She was a 
twin calf from an imported Alderney bull and a full blood 
