| Description | Smith writes about various subjects including: contacting foreign veterinary schools; researching 'Geoponica' and 'Hippiatrica', and the works of Saboureux, Fabricius and other literature of the Byzantine Empire; finding material in the Library at the Royal Veterinary College; sending Hierocles' writing to Cambridge for translation; researching veterinary literature of the Saxon period; finding a translator for material sent by the veterinary schools in Denmark and the Netherlands; foreign Honorary Associates of the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons.
This letter does not have a valediction or signature, and so may be incomplete. It is assumed that the second folio belongs with the first, as it refers to a letter from Bullock of '16 inst', but the month is not stated, and no letter from Bullock dated 16 Apr has been found. |