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Publications of Interest to Agriculturists. 
diseases, and general management of sheep, the volume concludes with 
the Mountain Shepherd’s Manual. The Dog was treated in the same 
exhaustive manner, but in a smaller book ; here the author was at 
home, and consequently it stands out unrivalled by any subsequent 
writer. Youatt’s masterly description of that terrible malady 
rabies will ever remain a true guide in recognising its existence 
under its different forms. The other sections of the work abound 
with practical knowledge of the diseases and treatment of this noble 
animal, as he is so frequently designated. The later editions con- 
clude with the new laws of coursing. 
This brief sketch of Mr. Youatt’s life would be incomplete 
without reference to the active part he took in associating veterinary 
practice with the English — afterwards called the Royal — Agricultural 
Society. One of the clauses in the Society’s Charter of Incorporation, 
1838, gave power to the Council to take measures “ to improve the 
veterinary art in its application to cattle, sheep, and pigs.” This 
clause is attributed to Mr. William Shaw, proprietor and editor of 
the Mark Lane Express — Gazette as it was then called — who acted 
as secretary to the new Society. Mr. Shaw and Mr. Youatt were in 
close communication ; they were old and intimate friends acting 
together to advance veterinary science, and they missed no oppor- 
tunity of placing before the public the absolute necessity of extend- 
ing veterinary knowledge to other animals besides the horse, to which 
it had been confined from the foundation of the College in 1792-93. 
No sooner was the Charter obtained and a veterinary committee 
formed than a sub-committee was selected to advise as to the best 
means of carrying out the principle of the clause. The sub- 
committee consisted of Professor Coleman, Assistant-Professor 
Sewell, Youatt, Simonds and Shaw. It recommended that means 
be taken to effect the co-operation of the Governors of the Veterinary 
College with the Council of the Society. This was soon effected, and 
Assistant-Professor Sewell was instructed to extend his teaching so 
as to embrace the diseases of other animals of the farm. Arrange- 
ments were made with Mr. Flight, who had a large dairy at 
Islington, to have any of the cows attacked with disease sent to an 
adjacent building, where they could be seen and receive attention by 
Mr. Sewell, accompanied by some of the College pupils. Notices 
were issued that sick cattle and sheep would be received at the 
College and treated gratuitously. To meet the expenses the Society 
made a liberal grant of 100?. Some sheep and pigs were bought for 
experiments with regard to the action of medicinal agents on their 
organism, but no cattle or sheep were sent for treatment. Flight’s 
dairy also afforded little or no advantage. In August of this 
same year the existence of the disease now known as “ foot and 
mouth ” was recognised at many of the London dairies, and also in 
many parts of the country. It spread so quickly that no part of 
England could be said to be free. Professor Sewell, chief of the 
College as he had become by the death of Professor Coleman, issued 
a circular detailing the symptoms and principles of treatment 
which in his opinion should be adopted. It is not too much to 
