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only of practical value, but the means thereto are simple, inex- 
pensive, and easily accessible, it suggests a fresh method whereby 
children in rural schools may be taught to observe and to 
compare. 
CATTLE BREEDING.* 
This handsome treatise by Dr. Werner, who is a professor both in 
the Royal Agricultural College and in the Royal V eterinary College, at 
Berlin, embodies an attempt, as is stated iir the preface, to introduce 
greater exactness than has hitherto prevailed into the methods of 
describing cattle. This is effected by resorting to actual measure- 
ments, which possess both absolute and relative values — absolute in 
that they serve to define numerically certain physical features 
cliaracteristic of each breed, and relative in that they permit of a 
comparison which cannot otherwise be so satisfactorily instituted 
between one animal and another. 
The work is divided into six sections, the first of which is 
zoological in its bearing, and deals with the buflalo, bison, yak, 
zebu, and urochs, ending with a history of the domesticated breeds 
of cattle in Europe. 
The second section is concerned with the internal framework 
and external form {der Korj)erhaii,) of cattle. In connection with 
‘ Die Rinderziwht : K6r])crlau, Sclddgc, Zuchtung, Haltung mul ISutzung 
des Rindes. Praktisches Handbuch von Dr. H. Wkknee, etatsmiissiger Pro- 
fessor fiir Landwirtschaft an der Kgl. Landwirtschaftlichen Hochschule, und 
' Docent fiir Tierzuchtlehre an der Kgl. Tierarztlicben HocLschule zu Berlin. 
Pages xii + 645, with 32 illustrations in the text, and 162 plates of cattle. 
Berlin : Paul Parey, 1892. 
