SCHOOL AT ALFORT, 1840-41. 49 
In this session, as has been already stated, a disease among 
pigs has produced the formation of false membranes on the mu- 
cous pharyngeal and nasal surfaces. Analysis has demonstrated 
that these abnormal productions, like those observed in the hu- 
man being, and in some animats on other mucous surfaces, are 
composed of fi brine, with a small quantity of albumen. 
Some observations follow with reference to arsenic and anti- 
mony, but they are not of sufficient importance to detain us. 
On the whole, the “ compte rendu ” of the last year is, in our 
opinion, considerably inferior to that which has been usually pre- 
sented to us. 
REVIEW. 
Quid sitjjulchrum, quid turpe, quid utile, quid non. — H or. 
Travels in the Himalayan Provinces of Hindustan and the Pan- 
jab ; in Ladakh and Kashmir ; in Peshawar , Kabul , Kunduz , 
and Bokhara. By Mr. William Moorcroft and Mr. 
George Trebeck, from 1819 to 1825. Prepared for the 
press from original Journals and Correspondence, by Horace 
Hayman Wilson, M.A., F.R.S., &c. Professor of Sanskrit 
in the University of Oxford. 
No part of the world is, probably, demanding or receiving greater 
attention from the British public than the immense continent of 
Asia. The eyes of the Christian are directed to it because of 
the immense multitude of human beings it contains plunged in 
the depths of ignorance and superstition. The statesman, the 
warrior, the merchant are interested in its territory, its depen- 
dencies, and its resources. The antiquarian, the geologist, and 
the historian have, each and all, their minds directed to a portion 
of the habitable globe rich in the quality and rarity of its stores. 
As lovers of general literature we should hail, at any time, a 
work like this with much satisfaction, because it contains an ac- 
count of districts but comparatively little known or described. 
The travels of Moorcroft, however, to which I venture to draw 
the attention and request the perusal of the readers of The Ve- 
terinarian possess, in my mind, no ordinary attraction. In 
the first place, it is chiefly the journal of a veterinary surgeon ; a 
man, the colleague of Coleman, the associate of one whose 
memory lives in the hearts of all who knew him ; in after- 
vol. xv. 
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