190 EVOLUTION AND DISEASE. 
sometimes the lip is cleft on each side, the median piece 
standing forward from the nose like a peninsula. An 
inquiry into specimens of hare-lip occurring in mammals 
generally, discloses the fact that in some the cleft may 
be lateral, as in man, but in others it is median in- 
position. The following facts are interesting in this 
direction :— 
In the summer of 1886, whilst staying in Paris with 
Mr. H. W. Freeman, of Bath, we procured a pug-bitch 
F1G. 102.—Cleft-lip and nose in a Dog. 
with a peculiar cleft in its nose. At first we thought — 
that the case was an example of hare-lip, but on making — 
inquiry we found it to be a distinguishing feature of | 
this breed of dogs and that it conferred upon them a | 
high money value. The bitch was brought to Bath, and — 
Mr. Freeman was successful in crossing her with a_ 
Skye-terrier and obtained some pups. Half the litter 
had normal noses like the dog, the remainder had _ 
split noses and lips like the mother. The pups from | 
