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Peonies, bulbs and hardy plants
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1830; retired many years…
LIST OF VOLUMES
OF THE
NATURALIST'S LIBRARY,
Portrait and Memoir of LiNNZEUSs.
MONKEYS, Thirty-two Coloured Plates…
1 LIST OF VOLUMES.
X1MI. PACHIDERMATA, or Thick-Skinned Quadrupeds ;
consisting of ELEPHANTS, RHINOCEROSES, TAPIRS,
&…
THE
NATURALIST'S LIBRARY.
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PUATATALIA,
YOIL, IX.
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NATURALIST’S LIBRARY.
CONDUCTED BY
SIR WILLIAM JARDINE, BART.
F.R.S.E., F.L.S., &e. &ec.
MAMMALIA.
VOL. IX…
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THE
NATURAL HISTORY
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DOGS.
CANIDZE OR GENUS CANIS OF AUTHORS.
INCLUDING ALSO
THE GENERA HY/ZENA AND PROTELES,
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FROM THE PUBLISHER.
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ance, given in our last advertisement,…
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we are enabled confidently to promise it within the
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The Volume which will succeed those above…
CONTENTS
OF
THE FIRST VOLUME.
PAGE
MEgMOIR OF PALLAS . . . 17
Chronological List of some of W orks y . 72
INTRODUCTION…
x1 CONTENTS.
The Caygotte of Mexico.
Lyciscus cagottis. Plate VI
Section IT1. Chryseus.—The Red Dogs
The True Dhole.…
CONTENTS.
The Kokree.
Cyralopex kokree
Fulvous-tailed Dog-Fox.
Cynalopex chrysurus
The Pale Dog-Fox.
Cynralopex pullidus…
Xiv CONTENTS.
Crabodago Aguara Fox. PAGE
Cerdocyon Azare. Plate XXIX, S . 264
Magellanic Aguara Fox.
Cerdocyon Magellanicus…
MEMOIR OF PALLAS.
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MEMOIR OF PALLAS.
Juvat integros accedere fontes
Atque haurire, juvatque novos decerpere flores.
Lucrets de Nat. Rer. bib…
18 MEMOIR OF PALLAS.
“ When a man,” says Baron Cuvier, ¢ devotes
his whole life to science; when entircly occupied
in making…
MEMOIR OF PALLAS. 19
me to make his Eloge a kind of ¢ table of contents,’
for which I must crave the indulgence of my audi-…
20 MEMOIR OF PALLAS.
in the subsequent history of Pallas; and its great
utility to every student of science is so manifest,…
MEMOIR OF PALLAS. 21
and physics, and also improved his acquaintance
with mineralogy, in the environs of that city.
In the…
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mentioned above as composcd at Gottingen. This
Thesis scems to have been his first work, and was…
MEMOIR OF PALLAS. 23
employ the greater part of the night, and occa-
sionally even whole nights togetlier, in devouring
some…
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to allow him to go and settle in Holland. Thither
accordingly he went, and took up his abode at the…
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sua genera accurate definit, speciesque.* In its com-
position he availed himself of all that had been…
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synonyms of authors to his species, was quite
remarkable for an author of twenty-five years of
age, and…
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teen plates, as its title Miscellania Zoologica would
lead us to infer, a great variety of subjects are…
28 MEMOIR OF PALLAS.
one has received a more detailed description. - The
next animal of which he gives an account is the…
MEMOIR OF PALLAS. 29
sent stands as the Phasiocherus Africanus of syste-
matists, “ I shall now,” says he, ¢ describe a new…
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We must not stay to make any remark on his de-
scription of a crane, his G'rus crepitans, the…
MEMOIR OF PALLAS. 31
length on the Anomie, Serpule, the Nercides and
Aphrodite, the Echiuree, Lumbrici, and Hydatids.…
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see how often progress is arrested by the slightest
circumstance. The most astonishing thing of all is…
MEMOIR OF PALLAS. 33
offered to undertake and superintend. This project
was strongly recommended by Gaubius and ap-
proved…
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with what we have designated a Monograph of
Antelopes. Here the general description is some-
what…
MEMOIR OF PALLAS, 35
French government despatched the Abbé Chappe
&’ Auteroche to Tobolsk to make the required ob-…
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cians, and of a great number of assistants, whose
services were to be devoted to the several objects of…
MEMOIR OF PALLAS. =
pearances, and excited an interest which has since
yielded an abundant harvest.*
Our Naturalist set off…
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crossed the Altaisk mountains, followed the course
of the Irtish as far as Kolivan, where he inspected…
MEMOIR OF PALLAS. 39
Retracing his steps, after having passed a second
winter at Krasnoyarsk, our traveller returned in
1770…
40 MEMOIR OF PALLAS.
the character of these < Travels;” and whilst some
have conferred on them the highest enlogiums,…
MEMOIR OF PALLAS, . 41
favourable. Long winters of six months duration,
spent in a miserable cabin, with black bread and…
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have been most flattering to me; and I can affirm
that the only knowledge I have of them is from their…
MEMOIR OF PALLAS. 43
the Volga was so far cleared that two-thirds of its
bed was free of ice. The morth wind which pre-…
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tic birds had arrived. T have remarked, that not
only in these countries, but generally throughout…
MEMOIR OF PALLAS, 45
firs, and varied by hills and rich meadows. Few
countries more deserve to be peopled. It abounds
in…
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documents usually are. And now we may venture
to add, that with scarcely an exception, there was
not a…
MEMOIR OF PALLAS. 47
could not be read but with the deepest interest.
He descants largely on salt lakes and mines, on…
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five quadrupeds, birds, reptiles, fishes, insects, worms,
and plants which he had examined with care,…
MEMOIR OF PALLAS. 49
In the valleys, where the soil is half sand and half
clay, it is still frozen, at the close of summer,…
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being trained. A Kirguis will often give a first-
rate horse for an eagle of good breed, whilst he will…
MEMOIR OF PALLAS. 51
they are dead. 'We are not, however, to conclude
that this bird swims, since it has not the…
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to Cuvier, no animal, even the commonest among
ourselves, are so well known. He also imntroduced to…
MEMOIR OF PALLAS. 7D
In 1781, he began a work which he meant parti-
cularly to dedicate to the insects of Russia (Zeones…
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stop to those most important publications, when
the new government has no immediate interest in
them.…
MEMOIR OF PALLAS. B
135.) Pallas laboured at it till his last days, and
had completed the manuscript, including all the…
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purchaser, at the same time desiring him to make
out the catalogne and fix the price. Ie accordingly…
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lastly, limestone strata the most external. “ It may
be stated,” says Cuvier, ¢ that this great fact,…
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the world has ever seen. China, India, Persia, and
the whole of Tartary, were nccessarily subjected to…
MEMOIR OF PALLAS. 59
thereby subjects himself to much trouble and vexa-
tion. We cannot convey a better idea of those…
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and government, but devotes a large portion of his
work to an account of their religion, which is truly…
MEMOIR OF PALLAS, 61
woman and a sovereign did not happen to malke the
best possible selection, nor act with as correct views…
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travelling, like that of a savage life, made him
impatient of a stated residence in a city.
Equally…
MEMOIR OF PALLAS, 63
and in English in 1802. The plan pursued, and
the style of these volumes, are very similar to those
of…
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to the Crimea or ancient Taurica, that singular
peninsula, which is flat and arid oy the side next
the…
MEMOIR OF PALLAS, 65
to great cold, with very insufficient covering. This
accident produced pains, which he hoped the mild…
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disappointment :—* Were this the proper place to
inform my readers of the disquietude and hardships…
MEMOIR OF PALLAS. 67
to those of our own country, and for every literary
communication it was in his power to supply.
When…
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phy. We used every endeavour to prevail upon
him to quit the country and accompany us to Eng-
land ;…
MEMOIR OF PALLAS. 69
fectly into his solitude: his calmed mind now re-
vived prodigiously under all these gratifications and…
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science. Besides, he had never borrowed from others
without rendering them explicit justice.
Thus…
MEMOIR OF PALLAS. 71
Baron Wimpfen, lieutcnant-general in the Russian
service, who died at Lunéville in consequence of…
APPENDIX.
CHRONOLOGICAL LIST
OF SOME OF
THE WORKS OF PALLAS.
[ The reader will please to remember, that we do not give the…
APPEXNDIX. 7
seen it noted that he sent three. The only
one we have met is on the Sienae jucu-
latriz. Thomson’s Hist. Royal…
74 APPENDIX.
the Count Lacépede, 1788 ; and the other
in 8 vols. 8vo. and one of plates, with
Notes by Lamarck and Longles,…
APPENDIX. o
phidis novam speciem orientalem. Part 11.
Obsercations generales sur les espéces sau-
vage des gros Betail. Ib…
76 APPENDIZX.
1781, Sorices Aliquot illustrati. Sorex moschalus
et S. myosurus c. Tabulis. Act. Petr.
1781. New Northern…
INTRODUCTION.
Wuex the interest attached to the higher orders of
the brute creation is brought in review for the pur-
pose…
78 INTRODUCTION.
It may indeed be conceded, that in the social con-
dition of nations long congregated and civilized,…
INTRODUCTION. 79
differ only in their mode of acknowledgment, from
the expressions of favour with which the drover,
the…
80 INTRODUCTION.
horse, were eompeiled to accept his yoke; and,
finally, when, with the same assistance, the wild
boar was…
INTRODUCTION. 81
thus early an object of deep felt interest, we arc
naturally led to ask the question of whence dogs…
82 INTRODUCTION.
admitted the wolf and the jackal to be constitucnts
of his genus Canis ; but it does not appear that he…
INTRODUCTION. 83
many plants are found in a wild state that man
appears to have carried with him in his devious
migrations…
84 INTRODUCTION.
Austrahia ; there is, besides, a half reclaimed race
among the Indians of North America, and another…
INTRODUCTION, 85
sive generations, of looking forwards to their master
and obeying his voice.”
This extract, taken from the…
86 INTRODUCTION.
Mr Bell concludes these observations in the fol-
lowing words :—* Upon the whole, the argument
in favour of…
INTRODUCTION. 87
We may therefore commence our remarks by
observing that dogs are found in every quarter of
the globe,…
88 INTRODUCTION.
Now, adverting to the eircumstance of the fertility
of the mixed breed between wolf and dog (one cer-…
INTRODUCTION. 89
Or in the case noticed by Mr Hodgson at Katman-
doo, where his experiments proved the Capra tharal®
and…
90 INTRODUCTION.
the first division of his arrangement, where he refers
to the wolf; and thus far left the argument of…
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