vi PEEFACE 



profession we tender them our gratitude, as an individual 

 I beg to express my personal thanks and indebted- 

 ness. 



I gratefully acknowledge the assistance received from the 

 published papers of Mr. J. Malcolm, F.E.C.V.S., in the 

 matter of Dairy Inspection ; to Mr. Cope, C.B., F.E.C.V.S., 

 I beg to offer my thanks for reading the summary of the 

 law in relation to the Contagious Diseases of Animals ; to 

 Mr. W. Woods, F.E.C.V.S., of Wigan, for information 

 relating to the Kfe of animals in coal mines ; to Professor 

 McFadyean and Mr. Hunting, F.E.C.V.S., for reading the 

 proofs on State Hygiene, and to both of them for their 

 many valuable contributions to Veterinary literature on 

 which I have freely drawn. 



Mr. Stockman, Chief Veterinary Officer, Board of Agri- 

 culture, kindly contributed the section dealing with ' Meat 

 Inspection'; Mr. H. Leeney, M.E.C.V.S., that devoted to 

 the ' Care and Management of Dogs '; Major Butler, A.V.D., 

 the section on the ' Production of Calf Lymph '; Major 

 Eassie, D.S.O., A.V.D., on the 'Organization of Eemount 

 Depots in War '; Captain Olver, A.V.D., wrote the chapter 

 on the ' Hygiene of Breeding '; Mr. Lloyd, F.E.C.V.S., of 

 the Sanitary Department, Sheffield, was good enough to 

 furnish me with drawings of Sanitary and Insanitary Cow 

 Houses, a subject he has specially studied ; Professor 

 Green, D.Sc, F.E.S., kindly revised the section dealing 

 with Poisonous Plants; Mr. Burtt-Davy, F.L.S., Botanist 

 to the Transvaal Government, favoured me with many 

 notes on Cattle Poisons of the Transvaal ; while Dr. Stewart 

 MacDougall, Consulting Entomologist to the Highland 

 Agricultural Society of Scotland, very kindly revised the 

 section dealing with the Diptera. 



It is impossible for me to adequately express my thanks 



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