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Ficus dasycarpum, Lam *tW3 Bhurvar. 



demonum 



glomerata, Roxb. 

 infectoria, Willd 



religiosa, Linn. 



^T^TC Dher-umbar, 37%5T Bokhera, ^rUTT- 

 g^5C Gandyaumbar, eRTa&R^T Kalaunibar 

 (F. hispida, Linn, f.) 



^T Umbar, 3"£3T Udumbar. 



3WFTT Bassari, qr^T Pakari, ZlstaSt Ukhali, 



W^^X Lendva. 

 fTT55 Pipal, 3T^c?T Ashvatha. 



(To be continued.) 



THE HORSE : A ZOOLOGICAL STUDY. 

 By J. H. Steel, A.V.D. 



In whatever way we look at horses they are of interest and 

 instruction. We may approach them with the critical eye of the 

 horseman skilled in the judgment of shape, action, and pace; of the 

 veterinarian, distinguishing the sound from the unsound; of the 

 humanitarian, viewing with interest one of the most valuable quad- 

 rupedal friends of man. Or, again, we may approach from another 

 point, and view the natural history relations and bearings of the noble 

 animal,Jhis zoological characters and affinities, and his comparative 

 anatomy. Seen as a member of the zoological tree, the horse yields 

 to none in the interest of the considerations it suggests to us, some 

 of which I hope to touch on superficially this evening. 



Hippology has not yet become a distinct science, but we have 

 sufficient material at our disposal to render it so; and Xenophon 

 probably had the intention of making a knowledge of the horse 

 a polite study, and temporarily succeeded in doing so among 

 the circus-loving patricians of Greece by his work on Hippologia. 

 A Hippological Association would be out of place nowhere in 

 the British Empire ; for, somehow or other, horse racing, hunting, 

 and the like, follow the Union Jack just as cricket does. The 

 study of hippology from its severest and most recondite aspects 

 has been pushed with some vigour in Germany, France, Italy, 

 and the United States. The descent of the horse ; his true place in 

 nature; the true homology of his foot ; the comparison of fossil 

 horses, and of those of Grecian, Assyrian, and primitive art, with 

 the horses of the present day ; the strict comparison of living 

 horses now found and their arrangements in species, races, varieties, 

 &c, have been followed out especially by Owen in England, Gaudry 

 in France, Rutimeyer in Germany, Kowalewski in Austria, Count 



