70 THE PORTRAIT GALLERY 



Dr. James Law (122) and the Secretary of the Treasury, was 

 made a member of the commission authorized by Congress to 

 locate lands adjacent to certain Atlantic seaports, suitable for 

 quarantine stations for the detention of imported cattle. In 1883 

 he went abroad to examine horse breeding in France, and there 

 assisted in the organization and foundation of the stud book for 

 the breed in its native district. He also was specially commis- 

 sioned on this trip by the Secretary of Agriculture to report on 

 certain European conditions surrounding the American export 

 trade of live cattle and meats. In addition to his journalistic 

 duties, Mr. Sanders found time in 1885 to write a book on 

 "Horse Breeding" that had widespread usage as a college text 

 in the latter part of the last century, as well as having a big sale 

 among breeders. In 1888 he published a companion book on 

 "Breeds of Livestock." His death Dec. 22, 1899, was peculiarly 

 untimely, as his reward from American agriculture was by no 

 means complete. 



