14 Transactions. 



A list of field-meetings as suggested by the Committee was 

 submitted and approved of. 



The Various Breeds of Dogs. — Dr Grierson then delivered an 

 interesting lecture on " The Various Breeds of Dogs," illustrated 

 with a very full series of the skulls of several races. The lecturer 

 first described the human skull ; next he compared with this the 

 skulls of various lower animals; and, thirdly, he compared the 

 skulls of difierent races of dogs with each other, for the purpose 

 of pointing out the most typical form, and the variations that had 

 taken place in domestication. Alluding to the attachment of the 

 dog to man, he remarked that the nature of a dog corresponded 

 with its master's. If he saw an unfriendly dog in a house, he was 

 prepared to meet an unfriendly master. If, on the other hand, he 

 met a kindly dog, he knew that the people who kept him would 

 be kindly. He had never experienced an exception to that rule. 

 Hogarth had the same idea. When he painted his own portrait 

 and that of his dog, he produced a remarkable resemblance 

 between the two. 



