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London on the last Wednesday in June, and the other in 

 Liverpool on the day of entry for the Waterloo Cup. 



The Club has instituted a " Greyhound Stud Book/' and 

 it is required that every dog that runs at public coursing 

 meetings shall be registered by name, pedigree, and descrip- 

 tion in that book, which is very ably edited by Mr. D. 

 Brown, Dairy, Ayrshire. 



The Earl of Sefton, over whose lands at Altcar the 

 Waterloo Cup is run for, has been for many years 

 president of the Club. The honorary secretary is Mr. 

 E. B. Carruthers, Huntingdon Lodge, Dumfries. 



It will be seen from the 1 preceding condensed statement 

 that the National Coursing Club rests on a liberal elective 

 basis, and in this important matter of principle is in direct 

 contrast to the Kennel Club the ruling body in all matters 

 pertaining to dog shows which is self-elected. 



It is unnecessary here to recapitulate the somewhat 

 lengthy, very complete, and carefully-drawn code of rules 

 of the Club ; but what is of the greatest consequence for all 

 to know who would indulge in coursing are the points of 

 the course on which the merits of the competitors are 

 decided by the judge, and these I give in extenso here. 

 They are founded on the code of the Duke of Norfolk, and 

 variations on that code made by the earlier clubs, and are 

 the result of the gradual development of coursing under 

 modern conditions, the alterations in them being improve- 

 ments, in so much that they better meet the wants of to- 

 day. The curious in coursing lore will find the Duke of 

 Norfolk's code of laws in Goodlake, Thacker, and still older 

 writers, and the alterations made in it, traced to that 

 which now rules the sport. 



