1 10 INTRODUCTION. 



canines are investigated; and although the author's objecl 

 was not to question the single or plural view of the parentage 

 of domestic dogs, and his argument occasionally seems to lear 

 to the former opinion, yet we claim many of his facts ar,d 

 reasons as confirming the latter. Want of space forbids these 

 being reproduced here in the form of quotations, and con- 

 densation wonld only garble and do them injustice ; we there- 

 fore refer to the original, particularly the Nos. x. xi. and xii. 



