916 THE ETIQUETTE OF VETERINARY AUTHORSHIP. 
u excellent work on £ Shoeing. 5 55 And if sufficiently in¬ 
terested to pursue the subject further, he may consult Col. 
Fitzwygram’s work on f Shoeing, 5 p. 85, and will there find 
that the shoe he recommends is one brought out by the late 
Mr. Hallen, Y.S. So much, then, for the originality of Mr. 
Thacker’s shoe. 
It is evident that Mr. Fleming is wroth that I have 
alluded to Mr. Broad, who only gained the second prize, 
whilst Mr. Fleming obtained the first; but if he had looked 
at my work he would have seen, that I acknowledge, that 
my views are borne out by many practical men, under which 
he might have included himself had he wished. I referred 
more particularly to Mr. Broad, because I know for a fact 
that that gentleman advocated sole pressure so long ago as 
1888, and I consider his £ Second Prize Essay 5 to be the most 
practical and original I ever read; but I repudiate the insinua¬ 
tion that I borrowed materials from Mr. Broad’s essay beyond 
what I have acknowledged. I am in a position to state that 
Mr. Broad differs from me upon the matter of narrow heels. 
When acting as adjudicator for the Scottish Society for 
the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, during the autumn 
of 1870, I read forty-two essays on tf Horse-Shoeing/ some 
of them covering over 800 pages of manuscript. Does Mr. 
Fleming suppose that he alone out of the forty-two essayists 
advocated the concave shoe, sole pressure, non-paring of the 
foot, or all and every idea upon an enlightened system of horse¬ 
shoeing ? 
I may further state that I arrived at my conclusions as to 
the desirability of the shoe recommended by me, not only 
from what I had read upon the subject and my own inde¬ 
pendent anatomical investigations and experience, but from 
what I thought defective in the te Charlier shoeand if any 
one is sufficiently curious and interested in the matter, he 
will find, upon an examination of my plates of it, that is a com¬ 
bination of the “ Charlier and the hunting shoe, 55 a Charlier 
shoe at the heels, the old hunting shoe at the sides and toe. 
I can only say that it has been my endeavour, not only in 
what Mr. Fleming calls “ the chapter” (which is scarcely 
four pages), but in all other parts of my book, to give the 
credit due to those from whom I have received original 
information. 
I am much indebted to Mr. Fleming for his kind con¬ 
gratulations upon my appearance as an author, and beg to 
assure him that, should occasion arise, I shall be very happy 
to acknowledge any assistance which I may receive from his 
writings. 
