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called, perhaps properly, a tubercular tooth; it is a small pillar 
with one tubercle on its top, or rather with a termination more 
pointed than tubercles are, and somewhat too pointed for a tu¬ 
bercle. It is received into a corresponding hollow in the last 
molar tooth of the upper jaw; and by the rounding and gradual 
disappearance of the point of the tubercle the increasing age of 
the dog is indicated. 
Here we break off for awhile. It is with diffidence that we 
have made these remarks upon or additions to the work of an au¬ 
thor so deservedly esteemed as M. Girard is, and standing at the 
very head of the veterinary profession in a neighbouring country. 
Our remarks on the natural form and changes of the molar teeth 
of the dog have not been brought to bear so closely and so accu¬ 
rately as we could wish on the main subject of M. Girard’s Trea¬ 
tise—the indications of age. Here is ample room for future 
observation. 
Y. 
Animal Power and Human Cruelty. 
[We have great pleasure in copying the following observations 
from the leading sporting publication of the day. They do credit 
to the talent and to the heart of the writer. When the cause of 
humanity is advocated by such men, the rights and the comforts 
of the most valuable of our servants will be better protected, and 
the character of the British sportsman ennobled.— Edit.] 
‘‘We had hoped that the match which ended in the death of 
poor Battler, in the summer of 1832, would have been the last 
of these inhuman useless outrages it would ever fall to our lot to 
record, and we are sorry to find that our expectations have been 
disappointed. 
“ During the hottest part of the past month (the 9th ult), 
a person of the name of Dixon, residing at Knightsbridge, put 
a little chestnut mare, seven years old, fifteen hands high, to 
the barbarous task of trotting one hundred miles, in harness, in 
a match-cart weighing something under a hundred pounds, in 
ten hours and a half, which, we are sorry to say, the gallant 
creature accomplished by a quarter of an hour and some seconds 
within the time, consequently winning the match for her owner. 
The ground was chosen between the milestone next Hampton, 
