THE BULLDOG. 189 
disproportion between the brain and the skull. The whole head, 
including the zygomatic arches and cheek-bones, is so much larger 
than that of the spaniel of the same total weight of body, that 
the brain may well look small, as it lies in the middle of the 
various processes intended for the attachment of the strong muscles 
ofthe jaw and neck. I was able to obtain the fresh brain of 
The Bulldog. 
a pure bulldog for the purpose of comparison in 1879, and from 
an éxamination I haye no doubt of the fact being as above stated. 
The mental qualities of the bulldog may be highly cultivated, and 
in brute-courage and unyielding tenacity of purpose ‘he stands un- 
rivalled among quadrupeds, and, with the single exception of the 
game-cock, he has perliaps no parallel in these respects in the brute 
