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PROCEEDINGS OE THE SCIENTIFIC ASSOCIATION*. 
have the effect of greatly increasing the reputation of the 
Association and the interest felt in it by its members. 
I feel that I should not do right in passing over without 
mention the earnest wish of this Association that its corres- 
ponding members and others interested in Science would 
favor us with papers. Many have it in their power to con- 
tribute much information on subjects of interest and im- 
portance to us all. This Association does not confine itself 
to any particular branch of Science. All that is required 
from authors is that their contributions shall be original 
either in subject-matter or in mode of treatment. We shall 
gladly accept papers on political, statistical, social and sani- 
tary science and economy, as well as on natural and phy- 
sical science. We anxiously desire on the one hand to 
contribute towards the extension of science, and on the 
other hand to promote the cultivation of knowledge as a 
means of elevating and advancing the inhabitants of this 
island and of the West-Indies. 
Be it then still our duty and our pleasure to hold forth 
encouragement to seekers of the Truth, and to show that 
our Colony is not an unworthy offspring of the great nation 
whose nationality we bear and under whose ensign we live. 
2. Hints on the Breeding and Rearing of Horses. 
By the Hon. Henry Mitchell, M.D., Ph.D. 
Gentlemen, I know not whether the remarks about to be 
now read can be justly deemed within the limits of a Scien- 
tific Association, but of this I am well assured that some 
investigation of the subject on which they bear is indispen- 
sable to the well-being of the agriculture of this Colony in 
one of its most important phases. I allude to the Breeding 
