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PROF, J. C. EWART ON 



Though Professor Fairfield Osborn thinks that the Domestic 

 Ox, instead of being a direct descendant of Bos primigenius, is a 

 descendant of Bos trochoceros of the Italian Pleistocene, he differs 



in no essential point from Lydekker, and, like Lydekker, believes 

 British Shorthorn Cattle are descended from an indigenous 

 Occidental race domesticated in Europe by the Neoliths*. A 

 somewhat different view is taken by Prof. Boyd Dawkins, who 



* Osborn, ' The Age of Mammnls,' 1910. 



