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Title: The animal kingdom : arranged after its organization, forming a natural history of animals, and an introduction to comparative anatomy
Year: 1849 (1840s)
Authors: Cuvier, Georges, baron, 1769-1832 Metcalf Collection (North Carolina State University) NCRS Blyth, Edward, 1810-1873 Mudie, Robert, 1777-1842 Johnston, George, 1797-1855 Westwood, J. O. (John Obadiah), 1805-1893 Carpenter, William Benjamin, 1813-1885
Subjects: Animals
Publisher: London : Wm. S. Orr and Co., Amen Corner, Paternoster Row
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nderived; animals which, the Dog alone excepted, have split into a greater number of varieties than any other.[One remarkable fact, however, at variance with this supposition, and which we have never yet found to benoticed, is, that all the wild races have exceedingly short tails, whereas the domestic breeds have generally, ifnot always when unmutilated, tails that reach nearly to the ground. It is easier to conceive the loss of thisappendage in certain domestic breeds, than its acquirement or extension, and tbe latter theory is borne o-itby no analogy]. We have some in Em-ope with fine or common wool; large and small; with big or little horns, wanting in thefemale, or in both sexes, &c. The most interesting varieties are the Spanish or Merino, which has a fine curlydeece, with large spiral horns in the male, now beginning to be diffused through Europe, and the English, whichhas long and fine wool. The most common variety in southern Russia has a very long tail. Those of India and
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