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THE HORSE 



accumulated from various sources which could have 

 made such a work possible. 



It endeavours to look at the horse as the animal 

 appears in the light of the modern and now generally- 

 accepted doctrines of Natural History, and in thus 

 doing it may be the means of teaching what some of 

 thosed octrines are, and so of affording insight into the 

 methods of nature applicable to a far wider range of 

 study and of thought than that limited to any single 

 species. 



By permission of the publishers of the c Encyclopaedia 

 Britannica ' some passages from my articles on the 

 Horse and allied animals which appeared in the ninth 

 edition of that work have been incorporated in this 

 memoir, and I am greatly indebted to Mr. Gambier 

 Bolton, Major J. Fortune Nott, and Mr. York, for the 

 use of the original photographs from which the figures 

 of the tapir, rhinoceros, and various members of the 

 horse family have been reproduced. That of the 

 quagga is especially interesting, as being from the 

 only photograph known to have been taken of this 

 animal in a living state. 



May, 1891. W. H. F. 



