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of such barefaced attempts in such reckless hands. How often these 
frauds had been previously practised will probably never be 
known but to those who committed them successfully. 
The Stud Book is now compiled from information derived en- 
tirely from the voluntary information afforded by the owners of 
studs, therefore it is subject to contain the wilful misrepresentations 
of designing men, and under present circumstances must be equally 
liable to publish them as the communications of the respectable and 
well-disposed. 
The remedy I then proposed, and with the present aspect of the 
increasing evils the necessity of some plan is becoming every day 
more urgent, was the appointment of a Registrar of Studs, the 
office to be filled by a person competent to make himself acquainted 
with every and such information as, when annually reported to 
the Club, should form the register to be published under its direc- 
tion, at the close of every season. It has been said that no man 
could be trusted with the identification of a horse three years old, 
who had only seen him as a foal ; and no doubt this is true ; 
but a Registrar would be able, in the second year of his vocation, 
to inform himself where the foals of the last year were to be found 
as yearlings. On the next year he would trace them as two year 
olds, and would proceed, in time, with proper arrangements to 
make the registration perfect. 
The Jockey Club alone has the power to inflict penalties for 
non-registration ; hence any system to be adopted must be made 
under its sanction. 
At all events, as matters are now constituted, I should recom- 
mend the Jockey Club to appoint a tribunal of veterinary surgeons, 
to consist of a competent number of experienced men in the pro- 
fession, to decide upon such weighty matters as are likely to be 
brought before them. I further recommend every member not to 
allow any opportunity to pass unheeded of making himself ac- 
quainted with the varieties, as well as the general appearances, 
of the mouths of all classes of horses. 
AN INTERESTING ACCOUNT OF THE EPIDEMIC 
AMONG CATTLE. 
On the 26th of February, the Duke of Richmond transmitted to 
the Council of the Royal Agricultural Society seven communica- 
tions on the subject of the epidemic among cattle on the continent. 
These papers related chiefly to the regulations adopted in this 
