The Society has a Registration Office which keeps authoritative Herd and Flock Books in which are entered the pedigrees of all the pure-breed cattle, sheep and horses in the country whose owners have applied for such registration; except thoroughbred horses and merino sheep, the breeders of which last have not yet arrived at the definition of the purity of that class of sheep. The walls of this Office are lined with the Herd and Flock Books of the Breeding Societies of Great Britain and her Colonies, and, as Mr. Herbert Gibson, himself a prominent member of the Society, tells us, “there is not in the whole world an analogous office which covers so diverse and numerous a registration.” The latest (1908) official Argentine live stock Census gives the following tables of, respectively, the importation of pedigree bulls and cows and pedigree rams and ewes, from 1880 to 1907. PEDIGREE BULLS AND COWS Official No. of values. Head. $ gold. From the United Kingdom 14,624 3,770,031 ” France 583 120,724 ” Belgium 325 75,235 ” the United States 169 41,200 ” Germany 153 27,770 ” Chile 113 27,034 ” Italy 62 9,553 ” Holland 50 5,300 ” Spain 40 5,700 ” Other countries 40 13,870 ------ --------- 16,156 4,492,372 ------ --------- PEDIGREE RAMS AND EWES Official No. of values. Head. $ gold. From the United Kingdom 65,724 3,141,971 ” Germany 3,327 207,833 ” France 1,184 60,154 ” the United States 502 33,250 ” British Possessions 223 15,500 ” Belgium 209 19,829 ” Australia 125 5,100 ” Spain 128 8,165 ” Italy 56 540 ” Holland 10 30 ------ --------- 71,488 3,492,372 ------ --------- Total value of cattle and sheep imported for breeding purposes during the above indicated period $7,588,780 gold—£1,517,756. These animals have proved worth vastly more than the prices paid for them.