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evidently lead to the establishment of a special department in 
our veterinary schools. Our students will then have an op¬ 
portunity to become educated in one of the preliminary 
branches of veterinary knowledge, and acquainted with an 
essential subject pertaining to a thorough veterinary training. 
Nor will it be the veterinary student alone who will profit by 
the study of the book, but all who are interested in obtaining 
the information it contains. 
“ Exterior of the Horse ” is divided into eight sections, these 
being subdivided into chapters. In the first section the reader 
is made acquainted with some rules of physics relating to the 
center of gravity, the lever and muscular mechanism, and 
the inclined plane. The second section treats of the various 
parts of the body by regions. The third relates to the pro¬ 
portions, viz., “ the agreement and correlation as applied to 
the different parts of one whole.” In the fourth, the impor¬ 
tant subject of locomotion is treated in extenso. The fifth 
makes us acquainted with important points pertaining to the 
age of horses, the teeth being carefully considered, both from 
a general point of view, and with reference to their charac¬ 
teristics as affecting the determination of the age. In the 
sixth section the reader is initiated into the important subject 
of the identification of the animal by the examination of the 
general and special features that distinguish individual ani¬ 
mals from one another. In the two last the aptitudes for 
work, and the consideration of the various vices of the ani¬ 
mal are treated at length, the last section being appropriated 
to concise counsels in respecting the selection of a horse. 
The numerous and excellent illustrations, numbering not 
less than eight hundred and fifty four, are neat and clear. 
The literary execution is good, and makes easy reading. The 
publisher’s work is far above almost anything published in 
the average of veterinary works. Altogether “ Exterior of 
the Horse ” is a superior work, which does great credit to 
the authors and translator, and we have no doubt will meet 
with general and deserved acceptance by veterinarians and 
others. 
