University of Edinburgh Archive and Manuscript Collections

Illustration of the Dutch points of a cow showing a cow with various body parts numbered and accompanying text.

Photographs of a horse's fetlock and postern - the image on the left shows a horse's front legs 'tied-in below the knee and large fetlocks;' and the image on the right shows a horse's rear legs 'bones of postern too slight.'

Two photographs of a horse's hocks - the lefthand image shows a 'fairly good "bone" below hock'; and the righthand image shows 'sickle hocks and "light" bone'.

Illustration comparing a sloping shoulder on a horse and an upright shoulder on a horse.

Illustration of a profile view of a horse with various points of its body numbered with a key to the chart beneath the image identifying the anatomy.

Illustration of the side and rear views of a dairy cow with numbers indicating, with descriptive text beneath, the name of the points of the body.

Photographs of Mr. R. W. Hobbs outlining the points of a dairy cow using the 1936 Royal Show Champion, "Kelmscott Marjory 47th".

Illustration of a diagram showing the points, indicated by a number, of a Holstein cow and shewing thurl location with corresponding text beneath the image.

Illustration of the anatomical points of Beef cattle from the front and rear views with numbers written on the various parts corresponding to the terms printed below.

Illustration of the anatomical points of Beef cattle from the side view with numbers written on the various parts corresponding to the terms printed below.