On Pithing Cattle. 6? 



This is chiefly an abridgment of his large work on mensu- 

 ration, and has since gone through several editions : — In 

 1787j in one volume 8vo, " Elements of conic sections, 

 with select exercises in various branches of military mathe- 

 matics and philosophy, for the use of the Royal Military 

 Academy, Woolwich.*' This volume, which consists 

 chiefly of practical exercises for the use of the cadets at the 

 Academy, was ordered to be printed by the Duke of 

 Richmond, then master-general of the ordnance ; and on 

 this occasion Dr. Hutton had the honour of being pre- 

 sented to the king, and of kissing his majesty's hand. 



In 1796, Dr. Hutton published, in tw^o large volumes, in 

 quarto, his *' Mathematical and philosophical dictionary," 

 an useful and laborious work, replete with curious and 

 original matter. It has been said that one article alone in 

 it, namely, that on algebra, occupied no less than two 

 years of the author's time, in reading all the treatises on the 

 same subject to collect the materials and arrange them. 



In 1798 appeared, " A new course of mathematics," 

 in two volumes, composed, and more especiallv designed, 

 for the use of the gentlemen cadets in the Royal Military 

 Academy, Woolwich. In this work the author has con- 

 densed into two octavo volumes, of a middling size, a 

 great variety of useful matter, and the subjects, though 

 mostly elementary, are treated in a novel manner, with great 

 neatness, precision, and even elegance. 



In 1799 our author had the honour of being presented 

 with a diploma of Doctor of Laws by the University of 

 Edinburgh, and he has since been elected honorary mem- 

 ber of several learned academics and societies both in 

 Europe and America. 



X. On IHthlng Cattle*. 



JL HE method of killing cattle by dividing the spinal mar- 

 row, with a view to lessen or prevent entirely the suffering 

 of the animal, was introduced at Mr. Mellish's slaughtering- 

 liouses by the laudable perseverance of Lord Somerville 

 and other memliers of the Board of Agriculture, and Mr. 

 Meilish found the flesh of the beasts so killed equally good, 

 if not better, than the flesh of those slaughtered in the usual 

 way. And as the operation is performetl quietly, and with- 

 out alarm to the animal, all bruises arc avoided, and such 



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