166 Cross-Breeding in Horses. 



obtains in the shape and action of the thorough-breds then 

 exhibited, and miijht, without any assistance from the judges, 

 point out the particular horses with suitable characteristics for 

 each of the several purposes above mentioned, " Caractacus " and 

 " Nutborne " may be taken as correct examples of the true race- 

 horse. The sprightly " Neville," with his splendid knee-action, 

 may be regarded as the proper' sire of the charger and the park- 

 hack, whilst the powerful " Warlike," with his compact frame, is 

 the very type of a weight-carrving hunter, so far as a blood-horse 

 can be one. "Newcastle,"' the favourite of the judges, might 

 put in a claim either as a hunting-sire for a moderate weight, 

 or, with his fine action and good legs, as the sire of a charger or 

 park-hack ; and he probably gained his honours because he was 

 tliought to combine best in his own person the several and 

 diverse qualifications required bv the conditions of the prize- 

 sheet. There were also some fine showy animals, with long 

 arching necks and grand action, that might properly be con- 

 sidered as suitable sires for hiffh-bred carriage-horses. 



XII. — Report on the Royal Veterinanj College. 



The Governors of the Royal Veterinary College have the 

 pleasure of transmitting to the Council of the Royal Agricul- 

 tural Society the Annual Report for the past year. 



The Governors can assure the Council that the same means 

 which they have hitherto found effective for imparting to the 

 students in the College scientific information upon the diseases 

 and treatment of cattle, sheep, and pigs, as part of the regular 

 education that the College affords, have been perseveringly and 

 successfully carried out. 



Four lectures per week, in addition to demonstrations and 

 practical instruction, have been delivered by the Professor of 

 Cattle Pathology. The arrangement pursued in these lectures 

 is scientific, and, as far as the means at the disposal of the Pro- 

 fessor permit, practical and demonstrative. 



The Governors have sought further opportunities for illus- 

 trating disease, and would willingly connect the education 

 afforded by the College more closely with the practical teaching 

 of Cattle Pathology, which can be obtained only in the country ; 

 hitherto the Governors have been compelled to rest satisfied 

 with the inculcation of scientific knowledge illustrated as far as 

 the opportunities of the College would admit, but to leave the 

 general application of this knowledge to be more largely studied 

 elsewhere. 



