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plan, it might, perhaps, be more judicious to give en- 

 couragement to some individual to go abroad, for the pur- 

 pose of instructing himself sufficiently to give lectures, and 

 to explain the best known modes of treatment. The com- 

 mittee recommend that $600 be appropriated in this way, a 

 part of which sum might be paid in advance, and a part 

 after the proposed lectures had been given in a manner sat- 

 isfactory to the trustees. 



What was thus recommended was carried into effect with 

 this variation only, that an arrangement was made with 

 Dr. Edward Brooks, of Boston, who was already a resident 

 and student of medicine and surgery in Paris, that he 

 should devote sufficient time to veterinary studies to qualify 

 himself to give, after his return, a course of lectures as 

 proposed. In the following year, Dr. Warren was author- 

 ized to procure in Paris, for the society, an anatomical 

 model of a horse. The report upon this bears Dr. Warren's 

 signature, and the essential part of it is as follows : 



Your committee find that there has lately been completed 

 in Paris the figure of a horse of full size, so constructed 

 that all its pieces may be taken apart. These pieces rep- 

 resent the muscles, blood vessels, heart, lungs and other 

 organs in their natural size and appearance. They are 

 composed of materials of an imperishable nature, and when 

 put together form a beautiful object. The committee, be- 

 lieving that there is no similar work in this country, and 

 that this will be of great use in displaying to practical men 

 the anatomy of different organs which may be the seat of 

 disease, have thought that its acquisition would be a benefit 

 to the agricultural interests of the country, and have, there- 

 fore, procured this work and ordered it to be shipped. The 

 committee, seeing the great importance of the bones of the 

 ox and the horse, have also directed the preparation of full 

 sized skeletons of these animals. The committee propose, 

 when these objects have all arrived, that they shall be 

 placed together in some convenient situation, and be made 

 accessible to the agriculturist, without expense. 



During the following winter Dr. Warren delivered a lec- 

 ture upon the anatomy of ; the horse, at the State House, be- 

 fore the Legislative Agricultural Society, which was com- 

 posed of members of the Legislature then in session. The 



