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Identifier: animalkingdomarr00cuvier 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 Blyth, Edward, 1810-1873 Mudie, Robert, 1777-1842 Johnston, George, 1797-1855 Westwood, J. O. #John Obadiah#, 1805-1893 Carpenter, William Benjamin, 1813-1885 Ralph, W. L., former owner. DSI Subjects: Zoology Animals Publisher: London : W.S. Orr and Co.

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Text Appearing Before Image: d, the Pointer, andthe Tcrriei; which chiefly differ in size and therelative proportions of parts# The Greyhound ismore attenuated, and has the the frontal sinussmallei, and scent weaker# The Shepherds Dogand Wo/f Dog resume the straight ears of thewild ones, but with greater developement of brain,which continues to increase, together with theintelligence, in the Barbei and Spaniel# TheBull-dog, on the other hand, is remarkable for theshortness and strength of its jaws# The smallpet Dogs, the Pugs, lesser Spaniels, Shochs, &c#,are the most degenerate productions, and e#xhibitthe most striking marks of that influence to which Man subjects all nature# The Dog is born with its eyes closed; it opens them on the tenth or twelfth day; its teeth commence changingin the fourth month, and its full growth is attained at the expiration of the second year# The female remains withyoung sixty-three days, and produces from six to ten young at a birth# The Dog is old at fifteen years, and seldom

Text Appearing After Image: Fig# 28#—The Dingo, or Australian Dog# prese > of age, uuly five inches and alength, from the corner of boar-huuiid examined by * A specimen, which attained two yiin the Museum of Dresden, measurhalf in Icngtli; this being exactly the same eye to the tip of the nose, of a SaiCol# ilamilton Smith#—Ed# + If the idea, whicli I conceive there is every reason to entertain,respecting the ori4iii of the Domestic Dog be well founded, it is clearthat a recurrence to a single wild type would be impossible# The Dogis apparently a blended race, derived principally from the Wolf, andpartly from various other allied species# In the Museum of the Zoologi-cal Society of London, there is a specimen cf an Esquimaux Dog, wliichresembles the large American Violf #C# nul/ilus# so closely, that therecan scarcely be any doubt of the connexion which subsists betweenthem ; and it is well known, of the American Wolves in particular,that if a young animal be surprised by a hunter, and suddenly menace

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