74 THE HORSE. 



which may be expected to be made from time to 

 time. 



That the science of palaeontology has a great 

 future before it has already been intimated. The 

 recesses of the earth still teem with riches in untold 

 numbers. When they have been brought to the 

 light of day, their geological antiquity and their 

 anatomical characters will offer a fruitful field for 

 investigation and speculation. The harvest is indeed 

 abundant and the laborers hitherto few. The excel- 

 lent work done in this subject by Marie Pavlow, of 

 Moscow, is therefore particularly interesting, as 

 showing for the first time in the history of this 

 branch of science that women are equally competent 

 with men to enter into the field and join in gather- 

 ing the golden grains of knowledge.* 



* The following are some of the principal works from 

 which fuller information concerning the palaeontology of the 

 Equidce can be obtained : 



E. Cope: "The Perissodactyla " (American Naturalist, 

 Nov. 1887, p. 985). Numerous other memoirs by the same 

 author in American scientific periodicals. 



A. Ecker: "Das Europaische Wildpferd und dessen Be- 

 ziehungen zum domesticirten Pferde" (Globus, Band xxxiv. 

 1878). 



A. Gaudry : Ancetres de nos Animaux, 1888 ; Les Encliaine- 

 ments du Monde animal, 1878 ; Animaux fossiles du Mont- 

 Leleron, 1873; Geologic de VAttiqite, 1862-1867. 



W. Kowalevski : " Sur V Ancliitheriiim aurelianense et sur 

 1'histoire paleontologique des Chevaux " (Mem. de VAcad. Im 

 per. de St. -Petersburg, 1873). 



