80 PRINCIPLES OF BREEDING. 



nutritive organs — I quote his language : ' when both 

 parents are of the same variety, one parent communi- 

 cates the anterior ijart of the head, the bony part of the 

 face, the forms of the organs of sense (the external ear, 

 under lip, lower part of the nose and eye brows being 

 often modified) a?id the whole of the internal nutritive 

 system, (the contents of the trunk or the thoracic and 

 abdominal viscera, and consequently the form of the 

 trunk itself in so far as that depends on its contents.) 



The resemblance to that parent is consequently found 

 in the forehead and bony parts of the face, as the orbits, 

 cheek bones, jaws, chin and teeth, as well as the shape 

 of the organs of sense and the tone of the voice. 



T}ie other ptarent communicates the posterior part of 

 the head, the cerebel situated icithin the skull immediately 

 above its junction with the bach of the neck, and the lohole 

 of the locomotive system; (the bones, ligaments and mus- 

 cles or fleshy parts.) 



The resemblance to that parent is consequently found 

 in the back head, the few more movable parts of the 

 face, as the external ear, under lip, lower part of the 

 nose, eyebrows, and the external forms of the body, in 

 so far as they depend on the muscles as well as the 

 form of the limbs, even to the fingers, toes and nails. * * 



It is a fact established by my observations that in 

 animals of the same variety, either the male or the female 



