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for which they will fly for long distances, it is said for miles, 

 there being no more nests there than anywhere else, and, in 

 ninety-nine cases out of one hundred, nothing like so many. So 

 much for Darwin's facts. 



F. 0. MOERIS 

 Nunburnholme Rectory, 

 Hayton, York, 



November 16th, 1877. 



THE PEDIGREE OF THE HORSE. 



[FROM THE "RECORD."] 



SIR, We have, I believe, the credit everywhere given us, 

 though we do not all deserve it, of being in Yorkshire much 

 interested in the pedigree of the horse, which I venture to express 

 a hope may give me ground for asking you to insert a few lines 

 on the subject of a lecture under the above title which appears to 

 have been recently given by Professor Huxley, an extract from 

 it having "gone the round of the papers." 



Is there not a patent deficiency in it ? 



He tells us of new fossil species of horse discovered, on 

 which he would build his theory of evolution, but not one 

 individual animal has he adduced the remains of in any imperfect 

 stage of progression from one to another. Not one. All he 

 describes are apparently in as perfect a state, each, as the other, 

 even down to the one " no bigger than a fox." 



But surely the presence or absence of the steps between each 

 is a fair test of a standing or a falling theory on such a subject. 



It is not for me to volunteer arguments for the Evolutionists, 

 but I will make them a present of one which I have not seen 

 made anywhere as yet. 



If the Trojan horse produced a number of men armed cap-a-pie 

 at a bound, which we have the authority of an ancient poem to 

 Ml us that it did, why should Natural S-h-cf inn be profanely asked 

 to discover for us the intermediate e\ I ween the various 



forms she presents as proofs of her theory ? 



1 1. iv -he Mis us of this little horse." as Mr Huxley has called 



