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tion of any similar fact ; if any such fact had ever 

 came to the knowledge of English breeders of horned 

 cattle. I have seen no answer to this request, though 

 the papers in which it was inserted are devoted to 

 agricultural subjects; and have been transmitted to 

 me down to a very recent date. 1 have not paid any 

 particular attention to such circumstances ; although 

 they have not passed entirely unnoticed. I do not re- 

 collect an instance of a Free-Martin breeding. 



Your obedient servant, 



Richard Peters. 

 Dr. James Mease, 



Secretary^ Philach Agric* Soc, 



