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. Sanpers 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. 
