80 PKINCIPLES OF BREEDING. 



nutritive organs — I quote his language: 'when both 

 parents are of the same variety, one parent communi- 

 cates the anterior part of the head, the bony part of the 

 face, the forms of the organs of sense ( the external ear, 

 under lip, lower part of the nose and eye brows being 

 often modified) and the whole of the internal nutritive 

 system, (the contents of the trunk or the thoracic and 

 abdominal viscera, and consequently the form of the 

 trunk itself in so far as that depends on its contents.) 



The resemblance to that parent is consequently found 

 in the forehead and bony parts of the face, as the orbits, 

 cheek bones, jaws, chin and teeth, as well as the shape 

 of the organs of sense and the tone pf the voice. 



The other parent communicates the posterior part of 

 the head, the cerebel situated within the skull immediately 

 above its junction with the back of (he neck, and the whole 

 of the locomotive system ; (the bones, ligaments and mus- 

 cles or fleshy parts.) 



The resemblance to that parent is consequently found 

 in the back head, the few more movable parts of the 

 face, as the external ear, under lip, lower part of the 

 nose, eyebrows, and the external forms of the body, in 

 so far as they depend on the muscles as well as the 

 form of the limbs, even to the fingers, toes and nails. * * 



It is a fact established by my observations that in 

 animals of the same variety, eiiher the male or the female 



