Chap. XVII. 



LAW OF BATTLE. 



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though mainly for actual service in battle; but I have 

 no evidence in favour of this belief. 



Fig. 02. Strepsiceros Kudu (from Andrew Smith's ' Zoology of South Afrra')- 



An interesting case has lately been published, from 

 which it appears that the horns of a deer in one district 

 in the United States are now beini2: modified throuofh 

 sexual and natural selection. A writer in an excellent 



