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The natural history of dogs : Canidae or genus Canis of authors ; including also the genera Hyaena and Proteles / by Lieut. Col…
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LIST OF V0LU5IES.
XIIT. PACHIDERMATA, or Thick-Skinned Quadrupeds
consisting of Elephants, Rhinoceroses, Tapirs,
&…
CONTENTS
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THE FIRST VOLUME.
Memoir of Pallas ....
Chronological List of some of his Works
Introduction
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The Canine…
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Crabodago Aguara Fox.
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Cerdocyon Azaras.
Plate XXIX.
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Magellanic Aguara Fox.
Cerdocyon…
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in the subsequent history of Pallas ; and its great
utility to every student of science is so manifest…
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and physics, and also improved his acquaintance
with mineralogy, in the environs of that city.
In the…
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mentioned above as composed at Gottingen. This
Tliesis seems to have been his first work, and was…
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to allow him to go and settle in Holland. .Tliitlier
accordingly he went, and took up his abode at the…
MEMOIR OF PALLAS.
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teen plates, as its title Miscellania Zoologica would
lead us to infer, a great variety of subjects are…
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length on tlie Anomice, Serpulcv^the Nereides and
Aphroditce^the Echiurece, Lumhrici^and Hydatids.…
MEMOIR OF PALLAS.
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French government despatched the ALbe Chappe
d'Auteroche to Tobolsk to make the required ob-…
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cians, and of a great number of assistants, whose
services were to be devoted to the several objects of…
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firs, and varied by hills and rich meadows. Few
countries more deserve to be peopled. It abounds
in…
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could not be read but with the deepest interest.
He descants largely on salt lakes and mines, on…
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five quadrupeds, birds, reptiles, fishes, insects, worms,
and plants which he had examined with care,…
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they are dead.
We are not, however, to conclude
that this bird swims, since it has not the necessary…
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In I78I, lie began a work which he meant parti-
cularly to dedicate to the insects of Russia (^Icoiies…
MEMOIR OF PALLAS,
i),)
15.5.)
Pallas laboured at it till his last days, and
had completed the manuscript, including all the…
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purchaser, at the same time desiring him to make
out the catalogue and fix the price. He accordingly…
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thereby subjects himself to much trouble and vexa-
tion.
We cannot convey a better idea of those…
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and government, but devotes a large portion of his
work to an account of their religion, which is truly…
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woman and a sovereign did not happen to make the
best possible selection, nor act with as correct…
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and In English in 1802. The plan pursued, and
the style of these -volumes, are very similar to those…
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to the Crimea or ancient Taurica, that singular
peninsula, which is flat and arid oq the side next
the…
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to great cold, ^Yitll very insufficient covering. This
accident produced pains, which he hoped the mild…
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disappointment : —" Were this the proper place to
inform my readers of the disquietude and…
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phy.
We used every endeavour to prevail upon
him to quit the country and accompany us to Eng-
land…
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science. Besides, he had never borrowed from others
without rendering them explicit justice.
Thus…
APPENDIX.
CHRONOLOGICAL LIST
OF SOME OF
THE WORKS OF PALLAS.
[The reader will please to rememl)er, that we do not give the…
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seen it noted that he sent three. Tlie only
one we have met is on the Sicena jncii-
lalrix. Thomson…
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INTRODUCTION.
Now, adverting to the circumstance of tlie fertility
of the mixed breed between wolf and dog (one cer-…