Derivation of the Domestic Polled Breeds. 791 
Investigators, in their researches into the history of this breed, 
have been chagrined to find in the first or second of the Surveys 
of the County of Aberdeen, drawn up for the Board of Agriculture, 
that no mention is made of any of the native breeds as being horn- 
less, This, now, is regarded as remarkable, and more so for the 
reason that the author of the first Survey was a man of consider- 
able repute, Dr. James Anderson. The first series of these surveys. 
_ Were, however, written chiefly from the strict agricultural point of 
View. The live-stock was undesignedly overlooked. So much, 
Rowever, did this prove to ‘be tho case: that a second: arriet was 
