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domestique,' in the 'Journal de FAnatomie et de la Physologie,' 

 torn. iv. 1867, p. 38. 



In Professor Hartmann's memoir above referred to, it is stated 

 (p. 350) that certain Negro tribes, who disobey Mahommedan pre- 

 cepts by eating as well as domesticating S. sennaariensis, excuse 

 themselves by saying it was formerly the custom to do so^ a fact 

 which goes some little way to disprove the view that this true Sus 

 can be merely a feral variety of S. scrofa, imported by Europeans. 

 Professor Hartmann, in a letter of date Sept. 38, 1876, says, — 



* 8u8 sennaariensis ist ein kleines dem europaischen Torfschwein (der Pfahlbauten) 

 ahnliches Schwein, echtes Sus, welches wild durch einen grossen Theil von Mittel- 

 Afrika vorzukommen scheint . . . Sus scrofa ferus in der Sahara und in Aegypten 

 nicht selten, findet sich angeblich ebenfalls in Sennaar, indess weiss ich hierfiber nichts 

 vollig Sicheres.* 



Professor Busk, in a letter to me of Dec. 17, 1876^ informs me 

 that in the Etruscan Museum at Florence, amongst numerous little 

 bronze articles extracted from the ancient Etruscan tombs, there 

 were many figures of animals, one in particular being a very well 

 made statuette of a pig, which to his eye very closely resembles 

 the Berkshire breed, the only point in which it differed being the 

 comparatively large eye, whilst the rest of the contour was quite 

 what we might expect to see at an ordinary cattle-show. The 

 animal was represented apparently as having a close curled tail. 

 With it were a good many statuettes of stags, the horns of which 

 were of the type of the pliocene Cervus ctenoceros. In the very per- 

 fectly restored Etruscan tomb erected in the Museum, with all its 

 original contents and frescoes. Professor Busk noticed, amongst 

 other figures of animals, one very well drawn of a monkey climbing 

 up a tree or pole. 



I should suggest that the monkey and the pig, both alike, are 

 representations of animals from the same quarter of the globe as 

 that whence the kinsmen of the Etruscans in the time of Solomon 

 brought, every three years, into Mediterranean regions, the ivory, 

 apes, and peacocks, the Sanskrit names of which still remain to 

 speak to their habitat. See Max Miiller, ' Lectures on the Science 

 of Language,' 1861, ser. i. p. 190, and ser. ii. p. 234, for the source 

 whence these animals and copper came to Europe. 



Professor Busk sent me by the same post odontograms of the 

 teeth of -tS'. cristaiusj 8. scrofa^ var. ferus^ and S, scrofa, var. domes- 



