THE EQUIDJE, OE HORSES. 



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comparisons of recent times have shown us these 

 changes down to the minutest detail ; and from the 

 geological series, which is being made more com- 

 plete year by year, the complex formation of the 

 horse's molars becomes perfectly intelligible from 

 the outlines on those of the Palaeotherium. Riiti- 



Fio. 37. Eight Upper-jaw Molar of the Horse. 



a, i, t>, h, Outside, inside, front, back ; M, m, front, back crescent ; P, p, larger 

 and smaller inner pillar ; F,f, inner main- and side-fold. After Brauco. 



meyer further gives special proofs that the species 

 in question transmitted the relative peculiarities of 

 their molars to the milk-teeth of their offspring 

 and descendants, whereas the descendants trans- 

 mitted the new inheritance specially to the molar 



teeth. 



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