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WILD TRAITS IN TAME ANIMALS. 



A MOXG the people one meets from time to the perusal of Dr. Louis Robinson's recent work (>), 



•^ time, one hears the complaint, how impossible upon his studies of the wild characters and habits 



it is to conduct any series of investigations into which have been perpetuated in domestic animals. 



Nature without special natural science training We are apt to forget that in looking for subjects 



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A HKIHITIVK NATURALIST. 



and elaborate apparatus For this reason intelligent for scientific research, some which yield the most 



people *bo arc really anxious and willing to do 



something which -a ill 



knowledge g'. through life witi 



focb i' v Totbeaewcv rot mmend 



prolific results for out labours are most familiar 



Wild Trait* ll 1 I 1 ■■■, i.'iult Robinson, 



0, lllintraifl by *.lx platen anrl ten 



drawings In lexi (Edit rgb ind London William 



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