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DR. WALTER KIDD ON THE 



[June 17, 



marked than in any other animal and qnite constant ; and it is 

 probable that in this instance the aixangement of hair has a 

 different mechanical cause, namely, a dynamical one. The 

 attitude of the horse in rest does not lend itself markedly to the 



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Dog, showing the opposing hair-streams on the chest. 



production of this arrangement ; but the constantly locomotive 

 life of the horse does afford adequate reason for a reverse 

 direction of the hair-stream by means of strongly divergent 

 traction of underlying mviscles. It is interesting to compare this 



