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Carnegie's estate in Angus," Scotland : " One of his 

 cows chanced to come into season while pasturing 

 on a field which was bounded by that of one of his 

 neighbors, out of which field an ox jumped and 

 went with the cow until she was brought home to 

 the bull. 



" The ox was white, with black spots, and horned. 

 Mr. Mustard had not a horned beast in his possession, 

 nor one with any white on it. Nevertheless, the 

 produce of the following spring was a black-and-white 

 calf, with horns." * 



" It is related that, at the time when a stallion was 

 about to cover a mare, the stallion's pale color was ob- 

 jected to, whereupon the groom, knowing in the effect 

 of color upon horses' imaginations, presented before 

 the stallion a mare of a pleasing color, which had the 

 desired effect of determining a dark color in the off- 

 spring. This is said to have been repeated with suc- 

 cess in the same horse more than once." a 



" Prof. Dalton, whose accuracy upon such a point 

 cannot be questioned, noted the following : While he 

 was lecturing upon the subject of generation, at the 

 College of Physicians and Surgeons of New York, 

 the janitor of the college called his attention to his 

 child, which presented a deformity of the external 

 ear, as though a portion had been taken off with a 

 sharp instrument. The janitor stated that his wife, 

 during her pregnancy, dreamed that she saw a man 

 with a similar deformity. This dream was very vivid, 

 and- she immediately related it to her husband. They 



1 " Transactions of the Highland Agricultural Society," vol. i., p. 28. 

 a " Cyclopaedia of Anatomy and Physiology," vol. ii., p. 474. 



