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A BREED standard, well-defined though it may be at the moment, is a fluctuating measure of quality, and Herbert Haseltine has done good work for science as well as for art in creating the sculptures of typical British champions of domestic breeds at the present day. The series of statuettes, nineteen in number, cast in bronze or carved in stones of various hues and textures, chosen to suggest the colours and characteristics of the animals, was exhibited in London and Paris in 1925, and now, thanks to the generosity of Marshall Field, has taken its place as a permanent exhibit in the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago. A pamphlet (Zoology Leaflet, 13) has just been issued by the Museum, illustrating and describing briefly the models in this unique series, which is a permanent tribute to the skill of the stock-breeders of Great Britain.
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British Breed Standards of Domestic Animals. Nature 134, 375 (1934). https://doi.org/10.1038/134375a0
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