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outward characteristics.' — James Howard on the 

 Physiology of Horse Breeding, 1878. 



*'Dr. Mills will think, I allow, that this corre- 

 sponds to the epiblast, consequently we may say 

 that as a general rule the type of animal is derived 

 from that part of the blastoderm, and it is the epi- 

 blast over which the male parent has the greater 

 influence. Now let us go a step further and assume 

 that the pointer bitch at her next heat is carefully 

 guarded from forming another mesalliance and in 

 due time has a litter to a pure-bred pointer. Let us 

 also assume that two puppies in the litter show 

 the influence of the previous sire, and that the 

 rest resemble the putative male parent, i.e., the 

 pointer. 



"Where do those two, which under normal cir- 

 cumstances should have been born typical pointers, 

 show that they were under the influence of the 

 previous sire? Is it not in the coat, and in a less 

 degree in the structure, speaking from an ana- 

 tomical point of view? I think it will be allowed 

 that it is so, and furthermore, that the variation 

 from pointer type to that of collie consists in the 

 re-occurrence of a physiological phenomenon which 

 I have already noted, viz., that from the male par- 

 ent is derived the external structure, etc., etc. Now 

 with this fact in our minds, it is absolutely impos- 



