M. Cuiicr on lite Domestication of Mummiferous Animals. 65 



with an enraged Tiier, which he sought out, grappled with, and 

 afterwards killed, is well remembered by his friends, who gave 

 him the name of ' Tiger Green.' He was peculiarly skilful in 

 making- preparations of subjects of natural history, and well 

 versed in geographical knowledge; his character was marked 

 by scrupulous integrity, high devotional feeling, and an uncon- 

 querable desire of adventure, which he, like many others, at- 

 tributed to De Foe's celebrated ' Crusoe.' 



The bold enterprises of few individuals have excited more 

 admiration, or their melancholy fate awakened more sympathy, 

 than those of the two persons thus prematurely consigned to 

 death in the prosecution of discovery ; and a considerable sub- 

 scription, headed by his Excellency Sir Lowry Cole, Governor 

 of the Colony, has been raised for the purpose of erecting a 

 Monument in the Church at Graham's Town, in memory of 

 i these gentlemen. 



M. F. Cuviei's Essay on the Domestication of the 



Mammiferae. 



[Abridged from the Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal.] 



As the strangest prejudices have been formed regarding the 

 state of animals in captivity, in the present essay, on the 

 domestication of mammiferae, I shall commence with some 

 considerations calculated to rectify these idea3, and to afford 

 juster notions than appear to have been entertained regarding 

 animals, and the various states in which we may study their 

 habits. 



It is maintained that animals can only be studied with 

 advantage when they enjoy a perfect independence. It is 

 indeed admitted that those which are domesticated may furnish 

 some useful knowledge; thamheir study is calculated to direct 

 us to the uuans of subjugating them, of rearing and improving 

 ihem with relation to our wants; that it apprizes us of the 

 services which we have received from them, and of those which 

 they are still capable of rendering us ; and that by thus 

 studying ihem, we are even enabled to discover the design 

 which Providence had in view in placing them upon the earth. 

 But it is said, what could animals reduced to.slavery teach us? 

 Under the weight of the restraint in which we are obliged to 

 hold them, we obtain from them actions which are only artificial, 

 and consequently little calculated to unveil their nature It 



