ADVERTISEMENT. 



These Twelve Lectures were originally written for " The 

 Veterinarian" in which journal they were serially published 

 in the course of the years 1842-3-4. Additional copies of 

 them were struck off the press at the time of printing : the 

 same are now republished in the present form ; the only altera- 

 tion they have sustained — were, indeed, capable of sustaining — 

 being the addition of some plates of the figures of horses, the in- 

 tention of which is, to exhibit, in outline, the different parts com- 

 posing the exterior of the body and limbs of the animal, to shew 

 their relative situation and connexion, and to throw some light 

 on the various movements resulting from their reciprocity of 

 action. In the absence of any systematic treatise on this com- 

 prehensive and inviting subject, it is hoped these " Lectures/' 

 roughly and runningly sketched as they have been, may induce 

 persons engaged among horses to bestow some reflection and 

 study on a branch of science which too many are apt to suppose 

 comes of necessity to them (as it were through instinct) with 

 the possession of a horse. Moreover, it is conceived that, at 

 a future day, they possibly may prove useful to some writer 

 or lecturer about to undertake the exposition of the principles 

 upon which the science of external conformation, and its con- 

 sequent action, is or ought to be founded. There being no pos- 

 sibility of correcting the sheets composing the work now, the 

 author prefers craving for their errata the indulgence of the 

 reader to the publication of any — which might be a lengthy — 

 catalogue of them. 



36, Gloucester Crescent, Regent's Park, 

 August 1850. 



