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Lord Moreton (Chairman), Major Craigie, Mr. C. De L. Faunce 

 De Laune, Mr. D. Pidgeon, Mr. Martin J. Sutton, and Mr. Charles 

 Whitehead. 



The Sub-Committee placed the preparation of the Text-Book 

 in the capable hands of Dr. W. Fream, to those skill and know- 

 ledge of the subject any success which the work may attain will 

 be chiefly due. 



The Sub-Committee desire also to record their grateful acknow- 

 ledgments, for valuable suggestions and revision of the proof- 

 sheets, to Sir John Lawes, Bart., Sir John Thorold, Bart., Sir Jacob 

 Wilson, Mr. Alfred Ashworth, Mr. Thomas Bell, Mr. J. Bowen-Jones, 

 Mr. Chandos-Pole-Gell, Dr. J. H. Gilbert, Miss E. A. Ormerod, 

 Mr. D. Pidgeon, Mr. Clare Sewell Read and Dr. Voelcker. " 



"The first Edition of this work, consisting of 1250 copies, was 

 practically exhausted on the day of publication, January i, 1892, 

 and a second Edition of 5000 copies was sold out before the end 

 of that month. The third Edition of 5000 copies, published in 

 February, has now been for some time out of print; but it was 

 thought desirable that, before a fourth Edition was issued, the 

 work should be thoroughly revised and a completely new set of 

 illustrations prepared. 



The present Edition contains 36 more pages than the others, 

 and it includes 256 original illustrations from wood engravings, as 

 compared with 200 process and other blocks in the previous 

 Editions. 



The engravings of live-stock are from the life, and an endeavour 

 has been made to present the relative sizes of the animals in each 

 of the four sections of horses, cattle, sheep, and pigs, though it 

 has of course not been possible to show the horses and cattle on 

 so large a scale as the sheep and pigs. 



The Author has carefully revised the text, and has made ad- 

 ditions to various parts of the work, whilst at the same time he 

 has had in view the necessity of keeping the volume within mo- 

 derate dimensions". MORETON (Chairman of Education Committee 

 of the Royal Agricultural Society of England). 



The work is usefully indexed, with an Index of Plants, and a 

 general Index. 



