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of brutes. The little volume teems with interesting and instructive 
anecdotes, and the kind, religious spirit of its author, who considered 
that “ the practice of a veterinary surgeon ” should be founded on 
humanity as well as science, pervades the whole book. On the 14th 
of August, 1839, the members of his profession, recognising his long, 
unwearied and successful exertions to advance the veterinary art, 
entertained him to dinner at the Freemasons’ Tavern, and there pre- 
sented him with an elegant dinner service. The tureen bore the fol- 
lowing inscription : — “ This service of plate was presented by the 
Veterinary Profession to William Youatt, Esq., a.d. 1839, in testi- 
mony of the high esteem they entertain of his literary labours 
in Veterinary Science.” In responding, Mr. Youatt, after having 
taken a review of veterinary literature, gave an interesting account 
of the difficulties he had to contend with in establishing the 
Veterinarian. Mr. Simonds proposed “ Prosperity to the English 
Agricultural Society,” and Mr. Shaw, the late secretary, in reply, 
stated that he had had “ an opportunity of witnessing the zeal with 
which Mr. Youatt had laboured to bring about the connection which 
had recently been formed between the Society and the Veterinary 
College.” Youatt was then a member of the Council of the Royal 
Agricultural Society of England, and retained his seat until 1842. 
His last work after the publication of The Dog , which appeared 
in 1845, was The Pig, issued by Messrs. Cradock & Co. in 1847. The 
author in this work candidly stated that “ it has been his task to 
collect all the various brief and cursory notices which have been 
accorded to swine by ancient as well as modern agricultural and 
medical writers, and, by weaving them into the groundwork of his 
own ideas and experience, to bring the before scattered rays into one 
focus, so that the eye of science may be attracted towards this hitherto 
neglected branch.” This, like The Sheep , is very exhaustive, and 
treats not only of the hogs of the ancients, and the natural antipathy 
to pork in many hot countries, but of the race throughout the world 
generally, and particularly of the English varieties in the different 
counties. He divided them into the small breed with upright ears 
and dusky hue ; and the large breed, long-bodied and long-eared 
animals, mostly white or spotted ; but he admits that the original 
breeds are losing all traces of individuality under the varied system 
of crossing. The Chinese are stated to have two varieties, the 
white and the black, and, like the Neapolitan, were much used in 
this country for crossing. The Berkshire has been considered 
one of the best on account of its small bone, hardihood, early 
maturity, and aptitude to fatten on little food. The anatomy, 
breeding, and feeding have each chapters, and piggeries also are 
described. The preface is signed and dated December, 1846, 
and an editorial note adds : — “The sudden death of the talented 
and lamented author having deprived this work of the benefit of 
his supervision through the press, the Editor has to request the 
indulgence of the public for any errors which may have accidentally 
crept in.” The illustrations were drawn from life by Mr. W. 
Martin, and some years later Messrs. Routledge issued a small 
