480 
A List of the Pupils who have obtained their Di- 
plomas at the Royal Veterinary College, St. 
Pancras, since the last Report. 
Mr. William Miles, New York. 
Mr. John Byrne, Dublin. 
Mr. Thomas P. Page, Tunbridge Weils. 
Mr. Samuel Jefferey, Blandford. 
Excerpta C u rios a. 
1597. — In Carrick, are kyne, and oxen, delicious to eate ; but 
their fatnes is of a wonderfull temperature ; that although the 
fatnes of all other comestable beasts, for the ordinarie vse of 
man, doe congeale with the cold aire : by the contrarie, the fat- 
nesse of these beasts is perpetually liquid like oile. 
1765. — There was in the parish of Braunston, in the county of 
Rutland, an ewe which had seven lambs, all alive, within less 
than a year ; and when fat, did not weigh above fourteen pounds 
and a quarter. 
1765, July 14. — A curious mare, 28 inches high, from the East 
Indies, was brought in a coach from Gravesend to Leicester 
Meuse, and after being curried and drest, carried in a coach to 
Carleton-house, when it was shewn to the Prince of Wales, who 
seemed highly pleased with it ; afterwards it was carried in a 
coach to the Queen’s Meuse. This was a fine little animal, of a 
dun colour, the hair resembling that of a young fawn’s. It was 
said to be four years old, well proportioned, had fine ears, a 
quick eye, and a set of fine teeth, with a handsome long tail, and 
very good natured. — Q y - Did she breed in England ? 
It cannot be too extensively known, for the benefit of breeders 
and fanciers of horse-flesh in general, that by pursuing the plan 
adopted by Jacob of old amongst the flock of Laban, horses may 
be bred of any colour or possible combination of colours. Dr. 
Thomson, of Hamilton, in the case which lately took the round 
of the newspapers, actually followed the suggestion of the 
Patriarch, and got a celebrated animal painter to take Batty’s 
beautiful horse, which painting was placed constantly in the 
stall before the mare during the period of utero-gestation. We 
know of seven gentlemen in this neighbourhood (Hamilton) who 
are following the same course with their mares this season ; and 
we only fear that the mania may extend among the farmers, and 
tend to annihilate the celebrated Clydesdale breed. An animal 
painter has taken a residence in town for the purpose of enabling 
himself to supply the demand of the country gentlemen for fancy 
horses . — Dumfries and Galloway Courier . 
