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notice treats of tliem in some detail. Dr. Mitra found in it no mention 

 of the horse-shoe, though the Rig Veda refers to it in one of its verses. 

 The belief in the value of the horse-shoe as a means of securing good 

 fortune, so prevalent in England, is unknown in India, except among 

 a few farriers in Calcutta and Bombay who have, doubtless, got it from 

 their English teachers. The work next treats of the size, motion, colour, 

 span of life, stages of life, and races of horses. In treating of age the work 

 points out the value of the cavities, colour and the grooves on the incisors 

 as sure indications, warning the reader at the same time about the wicked 

 practice of bishopping. The feeding, stabling, and breeding of horses 

 next follow, and the rest of the work is devoted to the treatment of 

 the diseases to which horse-flesh is subject. Bleeding, blistering, actual 

 cautery, poulticing and fomentations are largely recommended, and the 

 list of materia medica given is pretty large. Among the diseases 

 mentioned, both glanders and farcy find a place. The former is 

 called glirini, and the latter utharna. These names do not occur in any 

 Sanskrit dictionary ; but the descriptions given leave no room for doubt 

 in the matter. The glirini is described to be a disease characterised 

 by the flow of offensive purulent matter from the nostrils, and always 

 to terminate fatally. The utlcarna is known by a harsh, rough pi] age, 

 attended with large glandular swellings on the neck, chest and the legs, 

 followed by the loss of power of action in the ears, tail, and the skin of 

 the body ; the swellings run to suppuration and bring on death. 



Dr. Mitra added that he had an intention of preparing an analysis 

 of the work in the form of a paper, and hoped to have an early oppor- 

 tunity of submitting it for the Society's Journal. 



The Philological Secretaet laid on the table ''A Comparative 

 Dictionary of the Bihari language," Part I, by Messrs. Grierson and 

 Hoernle, presented by the authors. 



Mr. Beames remarked — 



This is the first instalment of a most valuable and important work 

 presented to the Society by the joint authors, both of whom are well- 

 known not only as philologists of the first rank, but as having devoted 

 special study to the languages of Bihar. Dr. Hoernle in his Comparative 

 Grammar of the Gaudian languages was the first to point out the 

 marked differences between the speech of Bihar and the ordinary Hindi, 

 and Mr. Grierson in a series of grammars has minutely and carefully 

 worked out all the peculiarities of the dialects of that province. In his 

 grammars the last named scholar gives only three leading dialects the 

 Bhojpuri, Maithili, and Magahi ; but in the dictionary a fourth dialect 

 is included, the Baiswari, spoken in eastern Oudh and as far south as 



