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The following letter has also been received from Dr. Budd:—

'Barnstaple: September 10, 1893.

'My dear Sir,—Some years ago the late Sir Frederick Williams, Bart., sent a brood mare, that had just been covered by a thorough-bred stallion, from his seat in Cornwall, Tregullo, to his shooting-cottage at Heanton Puncharden, near Barnstaple. When the groom entered the stable the following morning he found that one of the mare's eyes was hanging by a nail in the wall. The mare was then placed for a run in the Braunton marshes. In due time she produced a foal minus an eye on the same side as the mare's. The year following this mare again had a foal with one eye; but the third year she had a foal with two good eyes, the impression on her brain having worn out. This, in my opinion, is quite as interesting a case as Croucher's.

'In great haste to save this post,

'Yours sincerely,

'Richard Budd.'