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minton Library" (a.d. 1886), no less than 3800 

 works in eighteen different languages. I have 

 been at the further trouble to apportion the titles of 

 all these works (which in the bibliography referred 

 to are quoted chronologically) amongst the nations 

 which have produced them, with a view to ascertain 

 as nearly as may be in what proportions each has 

 contributed to the literature of the subject. The 

 result is rather curious. The earliest works are in 

 Greek, beginning with that by Kimon of Athens 

 (b.c. 430) on the Veterinary Art, and including the 

 well-known (and for the time they were written, 

 really excellent) treatises by Xenophon (b.c. 380) 

 on Horsemanship and on the duties of a Com- 

 mander of cavalry (first printed at Florence in folio 

 in 1 5 16) besides the veterinary work of Hippo- 

 crates, the remarks on the horse in Aristotle's 

 General History of Animals, and the little-known 

 treatises of such writers as Sextus Julius Africanus 

 (a.d. 225), and Ammianus Marcellinus (a.d. 360), 

 many of them only fragments, and first made known 

 through Latin translations. No modern Greek 

 author appears to have written on the horse, and 

 amono-st the ancients we find but seven names of 

 Greeks who have contributed to the literature of 

 this subject. Works in Latin, though rather more 

 numerous — and some of them, like those by Pliny 

 and Aldrovandus, better known — do not exceed 

 twenty-six, of which twenty-three were printed 

 before 1784, and three only — in the shape of theses 

 by candidates for degrees at German universities — 

 during the present century. 



