PREFACE. 



but to continue the body of the work according to the material he 

 may collect, and the occasion there may be for using it. That 

 this may be effected with something of that feehng of mutual 

 satisfaction which hitherto has passed between its patrons and 

 proprietors is his greatest hope, and one which shall lack no atten- 

 tion or exertion on his part to realize. 



The main features in the construction of the Herd Book, it has 

 already been stated, will be adhered to throughout, at the same 

 time that any improvement Hkely to further the interests of 

 breeders, or assist the reader in his researches, will of course be 

 adopted. Amongst the first and most important of these, it has 

 been suggested that the appearance of the volumes in continua- 

 tion at much shorter intervals than has yet been customary, would 

 considerably increase the value and utUity of the work as one of 

 every-day reference. With this the editor will do all in his 

 power to comply, though, in attempting it, he will be compelled to 

 ask even greater assistance from those kind and constant friends 

 whose labours in its behalf have tended materially to make the 

 Herd Book the correct chronicle of a breed of animals it has be- 

 come no less a national pride than a profit to produce. " The 

 authority," in fact, of a work which gathers its contents from 

 such a variety of sources and districts depends very greatly on 

 those who consult it : from such we should be indebted for the 

 correction of error and the conveyance of information. Indeed, to 

 the majority of those who have achieved that success which he 

 merely records, the compiler has the happiness to add he does stand 

 indebted ; and while, as in duty bound, he returns his best thanks 

 for the past, it is accompanied with the hope that he may merit 

 the same able assistance for the future. 



4, MoRETON Villas, Camden Town, 

 London, March, 1846. 



