Foreign Department

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the paper mentioned in my letter, (and not the Lancet,) is fuiished stamped for 25s. per annum, and this I can prove by their bills, although you deny it. I will not go so far as one of your correspondents, as to say that the Journal is "I a bad article at a high price," but I will say it is a " very improveable article at an improveable price." From Dr. Cowan's declaration of the estimate given by a London printer, (which I think be is not bound to make public,) I have no doubt but that the Journal may be published weekly in a much improved form without an increase of the subscription. There is an article of expenditure in the annexed account-" Tainton, for binding Vol. xviii. of ' Transactions."' I beg leave to say that the copy I had sent me was not bound, but merely stitched together. I should be sorry to see the "Transactions" discontinued, but would prefer an improved weekly journal to the rather shabby way in which they are now irregularly sent. The discussion at Oxford will I hope effect much good. Dr. Cowan can, and I doubt not will, defend himself from the severe and even unjust strictures which have appeared in the last Journal. I would add that it is not likely that the Medical Times should wish to have a London rival, and more especiaUy when it is remembered what a large amount of vituperation, and virulent abuse appeared some time since in that paper against the Association and its Journal. Dr. Ranking, after a little show of that temper which was apparent in a late correspondence, has resigned the Editorship. 1, for one, trust that all ill-feeling between the hostile parties has " gone" with his " occupation," and that the present Editor, under whose management our Journal has much improved, will still continue his endeavours to raise the publications of the Association, so that the members may not be obliged to take the Medical Times or the Lancet to make themselves acquainted with what is going on in the medical world, as they are now obliged to do. I am, Sir, your obedient Servant, * w. (We have nothing to do with the " Transactions," which are Edited by the Secretary.-ED. J.]