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Book Title
On the domesticated animals of the British islands
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London, Longman, Brown, Green & Longmans, 1845
Year
1845
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Cambridge University Library
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JISC & NEH
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lines 7—3 score
from End Note annotation     Questions for Mr Low
     Introduction
     p. 36
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bottom-margin annotation This I think, must be a specific character & not direct effect of temperature
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from End Slip annotation LXIII. Supposes the longer any quality in breed comes truer

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from End Slip annotation ― Believes in ill effect of interbreeding
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from End Slip annotation LXIX States roundly that vars. of sheep & Dogs will keep distinct p 671


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line 8 underline "seven"
line 8 underline "eight"
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from End Slip annotation p.5 & 8 Species of Ibex
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lines 10—3 annotation There must be 100s of species caught, not probable for trouble
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bottom-margin annotation We know how apt savage natives are stick on same plan, & therefore domestication wd probaly take place to gret extent — tamng wild animals & birds commn to them
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from End Slip annotation 91    Black-faced sheep will not amalgamate by crossing with other Breeds


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from End Slip annotation 159    Rye-land sheep will not    do. — [ie `amalgamate by crossing with other Breeds']
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top-margin annotation Crossing evidently produces rapid effects & has done much more than selection.—


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from End Slip annotation 188    Remarks how soon a breed in any county changes with no record of it. St01
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bottom-margin annotation (a)t01    No such gret change has been effected in reclaiming the common Ox of Europe
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[continuation] 1—2 underline "existed ... immemorial"
from End Slip annotation 239    On various Park cattle of England with coloured vars    p. 241    p. 301

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from End Slip annotation 239    On various Park cattle of England with coloured vars    p. 241    p. 301


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from End Slip annotation 239    On various Park cattle of England with coloured vars    p. 241    p. 301


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top-marginline 7 annotation instinct in young animal lost, & it must be lost by change in instincts in old animal. & by the old ones not depositing their young.
from End Slip annotation horizontally crossed 242
     242 Crouching instincts of young lost immediately — no doubt lost in Chickens, not in «Turkeys» through tameness of Parents
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from End Slip annotation 370 Long-horns with difficulty amalgamated    Colling & Bakewell & name Ellman for sheep

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line 9bottom-margin annotation such selection cd never apply to wild animals, as evry parent must be adapted to same conditions.
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from End Slip annotation 402    Male Boar tends t destry yong t prevent too gret increse — so som Rams attack pregnant females |||
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from End Slip annotation 411.    Tame pigs 3 incisors in each jaw & number not constant
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bottom-margin annotation What is average age of Elephants ?
from End Slip annotation 415    Vauban calculation of increse of Pigs (.Ch 3)


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line 6 underline "piebald"
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line 11 at "Breeds" annotation “    ”
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line 12 underline "King Herod"
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lines 12—10 annotation Darley Arabian
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from End Slip annotation 650 Half-bred Dingos wd attack Poultry — Low kept them


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from End Slip annotation LXIX States roundly that vars. of sheep & Dogs will keep distinct p 671
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from End Slip annotation 717 Some of Dholes of India like Greyhounds — Pointers Mute (Q)


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lines 29—1 annotation Sulivan's case of other dogs doing so at Falkland
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