Studies in the evolution of animals / by E. Bonavia.

  • Emanuel Bonavia
Date:
1895
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Credit: Studies in the evolution of animals / by E. Bonavia. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    PREFACE xiii Dr. Wallace and Mr. Darwin have studied the coloration of animals ; but, as far as I am aware, no attempt has been hitherto made to account for certain markings which occur, as one might say, in a sort of plan, and in so many different animals. In these pages I have made an attempt to account, not only for their derivation, but also for their genesis, as far as this can be known. I need hardly mention that the figures of Horses were not selected for their beauty of outline, but for their dappling. Most of the outline drawings are reduced in size. My thanks are due to Professor J. M'Fadyean and Mr. P. D. Coghill of the Royal Veterinary College, for helping me with photographs of Horses ; and to Mr. James Poynter of the Horse department of the Great Northern Railway, and Mr. William D. Duff, manager of the London Road Car Company, for their kind permission to photograph some of the horses in the stables of their companies. I have to thank also Messrs. Jeffs and Harris, and Messrs. Back and Co., of Regent Street, for allowing me to have some of the skins in their stores photographed. Finally, my thanks are due to Miss Butcher for numerous out¬ line drawings of mammals, etc., in the Natural History Museum. Some apology is, I think, due to her for asking her to make drawings of those archaeological exhibitions of Taxidermy. As she remarked, it was difficult to know where their legs ought to be ! The recent specimens in that museum are, however, splendidly got up. E. BONAVIA.
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