REVIEW. 
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sion. One example, which I lately saw in print, may suffice as 
an illustration. ‘Vixen, by the Helmesley Turk, out of Dods- 
worth’s dam, a barb imported in the time of Charles II,’ some 
time between the years 1660 and 1685, is stated, in the pub- 
lication alluded to, to be the dam of the celebrated Careless. 
The Stud Book informs us that Careless was foaled in 1751, a 
period comprising from ninety-one to sixty-six years after the 
above date. Careless was by Regulus, who was foaled in 1739, 
out of Silvertail by Whitenose, her dam by Rattle, out of the 
Old Child mare ; the Old Child mare by Sir T. Gresley’s 
Arabian, out of Vixen. Therefore Vixen was the great great 
grand dam of Careless.” — p. 74. 
Further in our review we have no mind to proceed. Up to 
this point we have turned over leaf after leaf of the work in our 
hand ; evidently the product of a steady and intelligent observa- 
tion earnestly directed upon its object, with both pleasure and 
interest. Nay, we acknowledge to have “ culled a spray,” 
which w r e shall not fail to turn to account as occasion may 
serve. On veterinary matters, Cecil would, in our judgment, 
have acted with more wisdom had he pursued the path Nimrod 
trod in former days, in his celebrated “ Letters on the Condition 
of Hunters;” or even the same as he himself has travelled on 
in the section of his (present) work treating on dietetics; viz. 
“ consulted those authors who have made such researches their 
particular study.” 
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Bulletin de la Societe Centrale de Medecine Vetekinaire, 
publie par les Soins de son Bureau, et redige par M. H. 
Bouley, Secretaire Annuel. Annee 1849. Tome Troisi&me. Labe, 
Paris, 1850. — Bulletin of the Central Society of Veterinary Me- 
dicine, published under the Direction of its Couucil, and edited 
by M. II. Bouley, Annual Secretary. For the Year 1849. 
Vol. III. Labe, Paris. 1850. 
[Continued from page 508.] 
Before proceeding further with the volume before us — the 
same which engaged our attention last month — we deem it 
necessary to make an observation or two relative to the 
