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THIS is a second edition of a work already reviewed in NATURE. The most important point of difference between it and the first edition is the introduction of 100 excellent plates, executed by Angerer and Göschl, of Vienna, from photographs taken from life. Pictures are, no doubt, of great assistance to a description, but, as the author justly observes, photographs, although accurate, fail in some respects to do justice to animals. This he attributes to the awkward positions they assume while standing, and the constancy of their motion while they remain on their limbs. It is also, no doubt, partly due to the higher elevation of the eye of the observer than the camera as usually employed. The levelness of the back and of the belly lines is destroyed by the camera when placed horizontally so as to strike the broadside of the animal. Prominences are shown against the light, which in ordinary observation do not disturb the levelness of the carcass. The work has a strictly pastoral and agricultural interest.
Farm Live Stock of Great Britain.
By Robert Wallace, Professor of Agriculture at the University of Edinburgh. Second Edition. (Edinburgh: Oliver and Boyd. London: Simpkin, Marshall, and Co. 1889.)
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[Book Reviews]. Nature 40, 619 (1889). https://doi.org/10.1038/040619b0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/040619b0