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furnish the constituents of the blend, or does the 

 union rouse to sudden activity those latent virtues 

 inherited by A and B respectively from various 

 more or less remote ancestors ? 



" But I have asked quite enough questions. The 

 fact that most of them cannot yet be answered will 

 be quite sufficient excuse for the reproduction of 

 the photographs which accompany this article. If 

 they stimulate the authorities of the great museum 

 in the Cromwell Road to continue and complete the 

 collection of equine celebrities which was so wisely 

 begun and set in order for them, I shall be more 

 than satisfied. The science of biology will benefit. 

 The b'-eeder will learn more about his business. 

 The racing man will appreciate a little more about 

 the beauty of the animal he loves. All that will be 

 to the good ; and a beginning may well be made 

 with the authoritative creation and acceptance of a 

 scientific standard of measurement for bones, and 

 the collection in one place of at least four skeletons 

 of the most famous thoroughbreds." 



