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scientific divisions. ZOOLOGY and NATURAL HISTORY, which deve- 

 lope the history, orders, classes, and properties of animals. ZOOTOMY, 

 or brute anatomy. The VETERINARY ART, which teaches the manage- 

 ment of the larger beasts, whether in health, or in a state of disease. 

 The Manege, or method of training the horse for parade or war. The art 

 of TRAINING for the RACE COURSE, a system peculiarly English, and 

 derived from Classical Antiquity and finally, to coin a new compound 

 term for the occasion, ZOO-ETHIOLOGY, or that part of ethics or morality, 

 which defines and teaches the moral treatment of beasts. 



Out of the above divisions, we have selected, as our province, the 

 SPORTING, VETERINARY, and MORAL, uniting, we flatter ourselves, the 

 utile with the dulce ; and, by calling in the occasional assistance of anecdote 

 and character, giving relief to the gravity of solid instruction. Having 

 exerted ourselves faithfully, we come not without confidence before the 

 grand Inquest of the public, solicitously expecting that first and greatest 

 reward of our labours, the verdict of PUBLIC APPROBATION. 



