PREFACE. 



Once again the writer, who on this occasion chances also to be the 

 President of the Eoyal College of Veterinary Surgeons, appeals for 

 lenient judgment on work performed under no common stress of duties, 

 professional and political. 



JNO. A. W. DOLLAR. 



56, New Bond Street, 



London, England, 



June, 1905. 



