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effected much, and much that is useful ; and if it is permitted 
to judge of the future by that which has passed, your reporter 
does not hesitate to say, that he will render the most signal 
services to veterinary medicine.” 
It will be our pleasing duty, in an early number, to shew to how 
great an extent the prediction of the reporter was verified.— Edit. 
itieimto. 
Quid sit pulchrum, quid turpe, quid utile, quid non.—H or. 
Cattle ; the Management, Breeds, and Diseases; with a copious 
Index . Published under the Superintendence of the Society 
for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge . London: Baldwin 
and Cradock, Paternoster Row. 
This work is at length completed. We must not do more than 
insert the Preface, which will display the aim and object of the 
writer. How far he has accomplished them, his readers must 
judge. 
(C PREFACE. 
“In preparing this volume on ‘ Cattle, 1 the author has often 
had reason to deplore the want of materials, and which he has 
been enabled to obtain only by correspondence with competent 
individuals, and the personal inspection of the present state of 
cattle in the greater part of the British empire. To those noble¬ 
men and agriculturists from whom he derived information, the 
more highly estimated by him because most readily and 
courteously granted, he begs to return his warmest thanks. 
His obligation to Mr. Berry for the admirable history of the 
Short Horns will not be soon forgotten. 
“ He has endeavoured to lay before the public an accurate and 
faithful account of the cattle of Great Britain and Ireland. He 
does not expect to please every one who reads his work or who 
has contributed towards it; for long experience has taught him 
that, although there is some excellence peculiar to each breed, 
there is none exempt from defect; and the honest statement of 
this defect will not satisfy the partisan of any one breed, or of any 
variety of that breed. He has passed lightly over the subject of 
the general management of cattle, in order to avoid trenching on 
