Excerpt from An Alphabetical Arrangement of the Leading Shorthorn Tribes: With Notes As regards the general selection of tribes arranged, I have drawn a line at the end of the Sixth Volume of the Herd Book, as a reasonable limit, within which all ancient dames of high degree may be deemed to have their record. I am fully aware that there are even so far some families, which in the opinion of competent judges I may have been wrong both to admit and to omit. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.