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amiss with him when left by Pettit, the groom, in the 
quarters of the College, on the Saturday night ; but he was 
found on his side, quite dead and cold, at six o’clock on the 
following morning. This horse’s stomach was found to be 
literally crammed with yew twigs and grass, and there was 
also a slight rupture in its greater curvature. With the ex- 
ception of this, the post-mortem appearances were precisely 
similar to the foregoing case. He had broken down part of 
the iron railings that separate the quarters from the 
shrubbery adjoining Clare Hall, and feasted upon the 
branches of one of the nearest trees within his reach, which, 
unfortunately, happened to be a yew tree. In the case of 
the reverend doctor’s horse, the gardener, in his ignorance, 
had removed a quantity of small branches and clippings from 
a yew hedge, with other rubbish, into a paddock, at the very 
spot where the horse was found dead. 
Some years ago I happened to see four or five valuable 
cows lying dead in a paddock adjoining the park of — Godfrey, 
Esq., East Bergholt, Suffolk; and, although I was a very 
small boy at the time, I remember it was said that they were 
all poisoned from eating branches of the yew tree. 
I remain yours, &c. 
Cambridge ; June 15 , 1854 . 
REMARKS ON MR. MAYHEW’S LETTER IN 
REPLY TO MESSRS. DUN, &c. 
To the Editor of the ( Veterinarian .’ 
Sir, — U nwilling as I am to fill your pages with a contro- 
versy, devoid, perhaps, of general interest, I have yet to crave 
the insertion, in the July Veterinarian , of the following remarks 
on a letter by Mr. Mayhew, published in your last number. 
In this letter Mr. Mayhew states that, in a paper in your 
May number, I have quite misrepresented the views he advo- 
cated regarding the physiology of the heart, in an article in 
the April Veterinarian. Now, upon a careful re-perusal of 
both his paper and my own, I am unable to discover a single 
misinterpretation on my part of Mr. Mayhew’s views ; and 
shall be glad if that gentleman will state in what particulars 
I have erred ; otherwise his charge of misrepresentation must 
be regarded merely as a gratuitous assertion. 
