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present horse. It sounds almost like a slip; but Professor 
Huxley is reported to have said of the equines of the genus 
anchitherium found in the Miocene beds in Grermany^ France, 
and Greece, that they differ essentially from the modern 
horse ; whilst orohippus was an animal about the size of a 
fox. 
47. The probability of the correctness of Professor Huxley^s 
pedigree of the horse would have been the greater if all the 
different types from orohippus to the living horse had been 
found on the same continent ; butit wasnot so. Anchitherium 
is as far back as European deposits would carry Professor 
Huxley. For orohippus we have to go to the Rocky Moun- 
tains of America. It was there in the Eocene beds that 
Professor Marsh found orohippus, the assumed ancestor of 
the living horse. The old world, which had hitherto been 
considered the early home of the horse, knows nothing about 
the four-toed orohippus. This has led Professor Marsh to 
claim America as the original home of the horse, and Professor 
Huxley yields the claim. 
48. But neither in America is the pedigree complete ; for, 
whatever were the fossil forms, no living horse of any kind 
was there found. The existing horse of America was intro- 
duced from Europe. 
49. Without wishing to depreciate the value of Professor 
Huxley^s horse, I cannot help thinking that its pedigree 
would not be accepted at TattersalFs. 
50. Again, the pedigree is incomplete on Dr. Huxley^s 
ovvn showing ; for the bear has five toes on each foot, but we 
have not yet found the five-toed horse. Orohippus could 
only boast of fourteen toes altogether; but twenty toes are 
wanted to make the case complete. 
51. Eohippus has since been discovered by Professor Marsh 
in a still lower horizon than orohippus; and, whatever may 
be the indications, it certainly has but the same number of 
perfect toes as orohippus, and Charles Darwin would not 
consider six toes short as a slight modification in the course 
of descent. His theory would require a vast number more 
gradual modifications before the common ancestor of the 
bear and the horse is reached. I submit that the pedigree 
is not complete ; and, if it were, is it the evolution of the 
horse? The pedigree begins with what is assumed to be a 
horse, and ends with ahorse. We must trace the horse back 
to an ancestor that is not a horse, before we are on the 
threshold of evolution. The pedigree of Professor Huxley^s 
horse, if correct, is only tracing the varieties of the horse 
kind. 
