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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 com- 

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

 constructed that all its pieces may be taken apart. 

 These pieces represent 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, believing that there 

 is no similar work in this country, and that this will be 

 of great use in displaying to practical men the anat- 

 omy 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, therefore, procured this work and ordered it to 

 be shipped. The committee, seeing the great import- 

 ance 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 to- 

 gether in some convenient situation, and be made 

 accessible to the agriculturist, without expense. 



During the following winter Dr. Warren delivered 

 a lecture upon the anatomy of the horse, at the State 

 House, before the Legislative Agricultural Society, 

 which was composed of members of the Legislature 

 then in session. The lecture was a public one, and the 

 doctor illustrated his remarks by means of the dis- 

 sected image of a horse, which had then arrived from 

 Paris. This anatomical figure, and the two skeletons, 

 were made available, as the property of the society, in 

 giving instruction during many years, having been 

 kept for a period at the State House, in the rooms of 



