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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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THE FIRST VOLUME.
Memoir of Pallas ....
Chronological List of some of his Works
Introduction
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The Canine…
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The Caygotte of Mexico.
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The Kokree.
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Cynalopex kokree .
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Fulvous-tailed Dog- Fox.
Cynalopex chrysurus
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Crabodago Aguara Fox.
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Cerdocyon Azaras.
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Magellanic Aguara Fox.
Cerdocyon…
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Juvat integros accedere fontes
Atque haurire, juvatque novos decerpere flores.
Lticret* de Nat. Her. bib.…
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" When a man," says Baron Cuvier, " devotes
his whole life to science; when…
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me to make his Eloge a kind of ' table of contents,'
for which I must crave the indulgence of…
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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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employ tlie greater part of the night, and occa-
sionally even whole nights together, in devouring…
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to allow him to go and settle in Holland. .Tliitlier
accordingly he went, and took up his abode at the…
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sua genera accurate definite speciesque* In its com-
position he availed himself of all that had been…
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synonyms of authors to his species, was quite
remarkable for an author of twenty-five years of
age,…
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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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one has received a more detailed description. The
next animal of which he gives an account is the…
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sent stands as the Phasiochcerus Africanus of syste-
matists, " I shall now," says he…
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We must not stay to make any remark on his de-
scription of a crane, liis Grits crepitans^the golden-…
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length on tlie Anomice, Serpulcv^the Nereides and
Aphroditce^the Echiurece, Lumhrici^and Hydatids.…
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see how often progress is arrested by the slightest
circumstance.
The most astonishing thing of all is…
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offered to undertake and superintend. This project
was strongly recommended by Gaubius and ap-
proved…
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with what we have designated a Monograph of
Antelopes.
Here the general description is some-
what…
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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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pearances, and excited an interest which has since
yielded an abundant harvest.*
Our Naturalist set…
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crossed the Altaisk mountains, followed the course
of the Irtish as far as Kolivan, where he inspected…
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Retracing his steps, after having passed a second
winter at Krasnoyarsk, our traveller returned in…
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the character of these " Travels ;" and whilst some
have conferred on them the…
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favourable.
Lonof winters of six months duration,
spent in a miserable cabin, with black bread and…
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have been most flatterino- to me ; and I can affirm
that the only knowledge I have of them is from…
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the Volo;a was so far cleared that two-thirds of its
bed was free of ice. The north wind which pre-…
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tic birds had arrived. I have remarked, that not
only in these countries, but generally throughout…
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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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documents usually are. And now we may venture
to add, that with scarcely an exception, there was
not a…
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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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In the valleys, where the soil is half sand and half
clay, it is still frozen, at the close of summer…
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being trained.
A Kirguis will often give a first-
rate horse for an eagle of good breed, whilst he…
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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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to Cuvier, no animal, even the commonest amon<T
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ourselves, are so well known. He also…
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In I78I, lie began a work which he meant parti-
cularly to dedicate to the insects of Russia (^Icoiies…
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stop to those most important publications, when
the new government has no immediate interest in
them…
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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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lastly, limestone strata the most external. " It may
be stated," says Ciivier, &…
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the world has ever seen. China, Ixidia, Persia, and
the whole of Tartary, were necessarily subjected to…
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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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travelling, like that of a savage life, made him
impatient of a stated residence in a city.
Equally…
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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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to those of our own country, and for every literary
communication it was in his power to supply.
When…
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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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fectly Into his solitude : his calmed mind now re-
^4ved prodigiously under all these gratifications…
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science. Besides, he had never borrowed from others
without rendering them explicit justice.
Thus…
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Baron Wimpfen, lieutenant-general in the Russian
service, wlio died at Luneville in consequence of…
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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the Count Lacepede, 1788 ; and the other
in 8 vols, 8vo, and one of plates, with
Notes by Lamarck and Longles…
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1 777' Obs. circa Myrmecophagum Afric. et Didel-
phidis novam speciem orientalein. Part II.
1777-…
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APPENDIX.
I78I. Sorices Aliquot illustrati.
Sorex moschalus
et S. muosurus c. Tahulis. Act. Petr.
I78I. NeiD Northern…
INTRODUCTION.
When the interest attached to the higher orders of
the brute creation is brought in review for the pur-
pose…
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It may indeed be conceded, that in the social con-
dition of nations long congregated and civilized,…
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differ only in their mode of acknowledgment, from
the expressions of favour with which the drover,
the…
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horse, were compelled to accept his yoke; and,
finally, when, with the same assistance, the wild
boar was…
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thus early an object of deep felt interest, we are
naturally led to ask the question of whence doiis…
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admitted the wolf and the jackal to be constituents
of his genus Canis ; but it does not appear that he…
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many plants are found in a wild state that man
appears to have carried with him in his devious
migrations…
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Australia; there is, besides, a half reclaimed race
among the Indians of North America, and another…
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sive generations, of looking forwards to their master
and obeying his voice."
This extract, taken…
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Mr Bell concludes these observations in the fol-
lowing words : —" Upon the whole, the argument…
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We may therefore commence our remarks by
observing that dogs are found in every quarter of
the globe,…
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Now, adverting to the circumstance of tlie fertility
of the mixed breed between wolf and dog (one cer-…
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Or in the case noticed by Mr Hodgson at Katman-
doo, where his experiments proved the Capra tharal'â…
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the first division of his arrangement, where he refers
to the wolf; and thus far left the argument of…
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pean, demands at least that we should suspend our
opinion until this question be better elucidated. As
for…
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terminology. The French have adopted a clear dis-
tinction, by naming the dog considered as a genuine
wild…
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pass from one to the other, from the largest Irish
greyhound, through wolves, dogs, jackals, and
foxes,…
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Society, in February 1837, are correct, the vertebras
of the back, loins, and sacrum diflfer, between the…
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the foxes, some one species, let us say the wolf, is
parent of the whole,—and therefore that the genus…
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tion.*
Writers more imbued with the spirit of
system than with the phenomena they have to
investigate and…
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swered that dogs proceeded from the spocies in the
ark, what becomes of the Mongolic, the Negro, and
the…
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abundant.
Yet none of these do^s have assumed
its aspect ; nor have they mixed, further south, with…
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about four thousand years, or of fifteen hundred,
perhaps nearly two thousand, generations.* If it
were…
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had had other results, it would still have remained
to be decided, whether a litter wholly of wolf ex-…
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Europe, the fiercest dogs, such as the packs kept bj
the feudal nobility for boar and wolf hunting, were…
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writers, and are led by inferences from their o^vn
observations, rather than by the authority of names.…
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cune autre espece sauvage, par la conformation, et
par la facilite cle s'apprivoiser."
In…
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other laws, whose periods of operation we are not
competent to measure.
Without, therefore,…
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climate and in captivity, are not conclusive because
they have terminated in the negative. We may add,…
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they be without a known prototype, we might form
a system as philosophically admissible as our present…
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This distribation is sufficiently correct, in a gene-
ral point of view, to merit consideration ; and the…
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see how or why a difficulty should be overcome,
which in itself seems to lie more in the maxims of
a…
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among ossiferous debris, or are found under ques-
tionable circumstances ; as if the progress of man…
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