A manual of the land and fresh-water shells of the British Islands / with figures of each of the kinds. By William Turton, M. D.
- William Turton
- Date:
- 1840
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: A manual of the land and fresh-water shells of the British Islands / with figures of each of the kinds. By William Turton, M. D. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![| WORKS ON AGRICULTURE AND GARDENING. ILLUSTRATIONS OF THE BREEDS OF THE DOMESTIC ANIMALS OF THE BRITISH ISLANDS; consisting of a Series of Coloured Engravings of the HORSE—the OX—the SHEEP—the GOAT—the HOG, From a Series of Oil Paintings, executed for the Agricultural Museum of the University of Edinburgh, by Mr. Shiels, of the Royal Scotch Academy. With Descriptive Memoirs. By Davip Low, Esq., F.R.S.E., Professor of Agriculture in the University of Edinburgh. Part I., Atlas 4to., with Four beautifully-coloured Plates, with Descriptive Letterpress, One Guinea. In the year 1832, a grant, by authority of Government, was made from the Funds of the Board of Trustees of Scotland, for forming an Agricultural Museum in the College of Edinburgh. Among the objects which this institution embraced was a Collection of Paintings illustrative of the British Breeds of the Domestic Animals. This branch of the Museum has now become very extensive, embracing all the more essential Native Breeds, as well as some of Foreign Countries. It is from this fine collection that the materials for the present work are derived. It is intended to make such a selection from the originals as will fulfil the pur- poses of illustration without extending this work beyond the limits which it will be proper to assign to it. The Paintings are all Portraits of Animals selected from the stocks of eminent Breeders, wherever the best examples presented them- selves in any part of the kingdom. They have been executed by a distinguished artist, Mr. Shiels, of the Royal Scotch Academy, whose time has been devoted for upwards of seven years to the subject, and who is still engaged in com- pleting the series of the Native Breeds. The Paintings have been made with the ntmost regard to fidelity of representation, so that all the essentia] characters of the external form may be shown. ConTENTs OF PartlI. THE Ox. Pare 1. The Wild or White Forest Breed;:—Cow, eight years old, from Haver- ford West, in the county of Pembroke. PuaTE 2. The Pembroke Breed :—Bull, three years old, bred by Robert Innes ‘ Ackland, Esq., of Houlston ; Cow, five years old, bred by Mr. Innes Ackland. Puate 3. The West Highland Breed:—Bull, four years old, bred by Colonel M‘Neil, of Barra, by a Bull bred by Mr. Stewart, Chesthill; Heifer, bred by Alexander Campbell, Esq., of Caolis, by a Bull bred by Mr. Campbell. Prare 4, The West Highland Breed :—West Highland Cow, bred by Mr, Max- well, of Aross, Mull, by a Dun Ball, bred by Mr. Maxwell; Young Bull, eighteen months old, bred by Mr. Campbell, of Caolis, by a Black Bull, bred by Mr. Campbell. ‘6 This is decidedly one of the most important and valuable works which has ever yet appeared in this country, as far as the breeder of the horse, the ow, the sheep, the goat, and the hog, is concerned. The object of the author is to show, from practical und scientific knowledge, the various gradations and improvements which have taken place in the breed- ing of the domestic animals we have mentioned, and by comparisons of treatment and crossings, to prove how the greatest advantages may be acquired. The work we should say is national, and ought to receive the encouragement and patronage of every agriculturist and breeder in the kingdom.’’—Bell’s Life in London. *,* Part IL. will be published on April Ist. Just published, by the same Author, ELEMENTS OF PRACTICAL AGRICULTURE; comprehending the Cultivation of Plants, the Husbandry of Domestic Animals, and the Economy of the Farm. Third Edition, with Additions, and above 200 Woodcuts, 1 vol. 8vo. 18s. cloth lettered. ‘* No work on agriculture has appeared in our time which will bear a comparison with this excellent, and we would say classical work, of Professor Low. It will become the manual of practical agriculture for the British empire; and the judicious practical rules and sound views of our author will unquestionably prove beneficial to the agriculturists of other countries.”—Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b29349205_0373.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
