146 RECREATIONS OF A NATURALIST 



to different climates and forced existence under 

 altered conditions of life, have, in the course of 

 countless generations, become so modified as to 



WOODEN MUMMY CASE FOR A CAT. 



(T/iis and the next two blocks are reproduced frovi ChampJfLury's " The Cat," 



by permission qf Messrs George Bell &" Sons.) 



assume the appearance which they now present ? 

 Or are we to believe that more than one wild ancestor 

 has contributed to the formation of the various 



