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burgh Veterinarij Review, for August 1861. "Dr. 

 Carson," says tlie Editor of the Londonderry Standard 

 (August, 15th, 1861), "has pubHshed in the Veteri- 

 nary Review a letter claiming on his own account his- 

 toric priority in the matter, as he is justly entitled to 

 do, on the evidence of oui* own newspaper files." 



After all this it certainly required a good deal of 

 assurance on the part of Stonehenge and Lupton to 

 come out, as they did in October, 1861, with a claim 

 of priority. They had then no excuse for ignoring the 

 existence of my views, because Stonehenge, as Editor 

 of " The Field," was sent a copy of my book, and Mr. 

 Lupton must have seen my letter in the Veterinary 

 Review. Under all the cii'cumstances, I am compelled 

 to regard their conduct as neither courteous nor honour- 

 able. 



Again, at the 9th page of his last work, Stonehenge 

 says regarding the fore-leg, " It does sometimes happen, 

 however, that the toes are turned in or out without 

 aflfecting the elbow." Now, I must request him to 

 point out the place, either in his own writings or in the 

 writings of other men, where this peculiarity was 

 mentioned until it was published by me. If he is un- 

 able to do so, he must bear the reproach of appropri- 

 ating my views, in this matter also, without acknow- 

 ledgment. 



THE END. 



