such as " whorls " or vortices — whorls with a feathering 

 extending from them, against an opposing stream of hair, 

 and again this whorl and feathering may cease abruptly in 

 a crest or ridge of hair at some critical point in the part 

 where opposing muscular action ceases. Regarding the 

 general set of hair on the trunk of animals, it is found that, 

 broadly speaking, the more simple and elongated the form of 

 the body, the nearer does the slope of hair on the trunk 

 approach to the long axis of the spine, and vice versa, on the 

 one hand a weasel, and on the other a horse. There are 

 also certain ridges where converging streams of hair meet, 

 or circular tufts. There are also on the body of man con- 

 verging lines, crossing lines, and boundary lines. Most of 

 these will not be noticed further here, though I must touch 

 upon the radiating whorls in certain of our chosen types. 



Marsupials with their somewhat simple structure and 

 form also present a very simple arrangement of hair which 

 differs little from that which I have described, the rudimen- 

 tary type of a sea), rodent, or small cat. They show on two 

 regions, the snout (as a rule) and the chest (occasionally), 

 radiating whorls such as are found more frequently in other 

 animals. 



Carnivores may be roughly divided into the QEluroidea, 

 Cynoidea, and Arctoidea, represented by cats, dogs, and 

 bears. 



Among groups so large as these there must be a great 

 variety of bodily forms, and consequently of hair-slope. 

 This is so when one comes to small details of this character, 

 especially when one remembers the exceeding variety of 

 hairy coat possessed by such as a lion, leopard, lynx, hyaena, 

 dog, wolf, fox, bears of various forms, weasel, stoat, badger, 

 or racoon. In the bears generally, dogs, wolves, and foxes, 

 and the small cats and weasel tribe, with elongated bodies 

 and pointed snouts, there is a hair-slope very like that of our 

 rudimentary type-form, such as has been described, with a 

 nasal whorl present in all, and in most of them a pectoral 

 whorl, except in those where the hairy coat is altogether too 

 long and thick to admit of its production. When we come 

 to the larger Felidce — lion, tiger, leopard, jaguar, puma, lynx, 

 domestic cat — we find more varieties of hair-slope. On the 

 nasal region the first thing to attract attention is the absence 

 of any whorl close to the naked wet muzzle, and instead of 



