[496] Quoted from Raffles, in the 'Indian Field,' 1859, p. 196; for Varro,
_see_ Pallas, _ut supra_.
[497] Erman's 'Travels in Siberia,' Eng. translat., vol. i. p. 453.
[498] _See_ also 'Journal of R. Geograph. Soc.,' vol. xiii. part i. p. 65.
[499] Livingstone's 'First Travels,' pp. 191, 439, 565; _see_ also
'Expedition to the Zambesi,' 1865, p. 465, for an analogous case respecting
a good breed of goats.
[500] Andersson's 'Travels in South Africa,' pp. 232, 318, 319.
[501] Dr. Vavasseur, in 'Bull. de la Soc. d'Acclimat.,' tom. viii., 1861,
p. 136.
[502] 'The Natural History of Dee Side,' 1855, p. 476.
[503] 'Bull. de la Soc. d'Acclimat.,' tom. vii., 1860, p. 457.
[504] 'Cattle,' p. 48.
[505] Livingstone's Travels, p. 576; Andersson, 'Lake Ngami,' 1856, p. 222.
With respect to the sale in Kaffraria, _see_ 'Quarterly Review,' 1860, p.
139.
[506] 'Memoire sur les Chinois' (by the Jesuits), 1786, tom. xi. p. 57.
[507] F. Michel, 'Des Haras,' pp. 47, 50.
[508] Col. Hamilton Smith, Dogs, in 'Nat. Lib.,' vol. x. p. 103.
[509] Azara, 'Quadrupedes du Paraguay,' tom. ii. p. 324.
[510] Sidney's edit. of Youatt, 1860, pp. 24, 25.
[511] 'Rural Economy of Yorkshire,' vol. ii. p. 182.
[512] Moll et Gayot, 'Du Boeuf,' 1860, p. 547.
[513] 'The India Sporting Review,' vol. ii. p. 181; 'The Stud Farm,' by
Cecil, p. 58.
[514] 'The Horse,' p. 22.
[515] 'History of England,' vol. i. p. 316.
[516] 'Uber Bestaendigkeit der Arten.'
[517] Youatt on Sheep, p. 315.
[518] 'Ueber Shorthorn Rindvieh,' 1857, s. 51.
[519] Low, 'Domesticated Animals,' 1845, p. 363.
[520] 'Quarterly Review,' 1849, p. 392.
[521] H. von Nathusius, 'Vorstudien ... Schweineschaedel,' 1864, s. 140.
[522] _See_ also Dr. Christ, in 'Ruetimeyer's Pfahlbauten,' 1861, s. 226.
[523] The passage is given 'Bull. Soc. d'Acclimat.,' 1858, p. 11.
[524] 'Journal of Horticulture,' 1862, p. 394.
[525] 'Gardener's Chronicle,' 1857, p. 85.
[526] _See_ Mr. Wildman's address to the Floricult. Soc., in 'Gardener's
Chronicle,' 1843, p. 86.
[527] 'Journal of Horticulture,' Oct. 24th, 1865, p. 239.
[528] Prescott's 'Hist. of Mexico,' vol. ii. p. 61.
[529] Sageret, 'Pomologie Physiologique,' 1830, p. 47; Gallesio, 'Teoria
della Riproduzione,' 1816, p. 88; Godron, 'De l'Espece,' 1859, tom. ii. pp.
63, 67, 70. In my tenth and eleventh chapters I have given details on the
potato; and I can confirm similar remarks with respect t
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