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Human laws may reach and punish a few of the most atro¬ 
cious acts of cruelty, but there are many others which, like vivi¬ 
section, along with those I have named, escape their cognizance, 
and owe their existence to the careless apathy of the public. 
The spirit of humanity must elevate its voice, and inculcate 
its precepts in the school, the college, and the lecture-room; in 
the courts of justice and in the pulpit. It must speak through 
the mouths of poets, philosophers and physiologists; it must in¬ 
voke th e press to stamp its dictates in the indelible characters of 
ink and type, and give them passport over the world. It must 
implore it to brand, with disreputable stigma, every cruel deed; 
that those who are not to be allured to mercy by high and gener¬ 
ous motives, may be deterred from cruelty by the dread of 
shame ! 
The Hon. Elbridge T. Gerry, counsel to the American Soci¬ 
ety for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, followed Mr. 
Bergli with some well-chosen remarks, illustrative of the address 
which preceded them. 
His legal anecdote relating to Mr. Smith, the “ Yi-tinnery 
Surgeon,” who never wrote his name in his life, but always made 
his mark; and who had never been in any of the criminal insti¬ 
tutions of the State, was particularly rich with humor. 
VETERINARY TITLES. 
By D. McEachran, F.R.C.V.S., Montreal Veterinary College. 
From time to time discussions on this subject have appeared 
in the columns of the journals of the profession, which to out¬ 
siders must give the impression that there must be something 
wrong in the constitution of our schools, or the education of our 
pupils, when so much ignorance exists as to the titles which the 
possession of certain diplomas confer on the holders thereof. 
I am sorry to find that similar discussions are in progress in 
this country, and, unfortunately, conducted with unseemly bitter¬ 
ness. 
