[6] ‘Mémoire sur les chevaux à trente-quatre côtes,’ 1871.
[7] Proc. Veterinary Assoc., in ‘The Veterinary,’ vol. xiii. p. 42.
[8] ‘Bulletin de la Soc. Géolog.,’ tom. xxii., 1866, p. 22.
[9] Mr. Percival of the Enniskillen Dragoons, in ‘The Veterinary,’ vol. i. p. 224: see Azara, ‘Des Quadrupèdes du Paraguay,’ tom. ii. p. 313. The French translator of Azara refers to other cases mentioned by Huzard as having occurred in Spain.
[10] Godron, ‘De l’Espèce’ tom. i. p. 378.
[11] ‘Ueber die Eigenschaften,’ etc., 1828, s. 10.
[12] ‘Domesticated Animals of the British Islands,’ pp. 527, 532. In all the veterinary treatises and papers which I have read, the writers insist in the strongest terms on the inheritance by the horse of all good and bad tendencies and qualities. Perhaps the principle of inheritance is not really stronger in the horse than in any other animal; but, from its value, the tendency has been more carefully observed.
[13] Andrew Knight crossed breeds so different in size as a dray-horse and Norwegian pony: see A. Walker on ‘Intermarriage,’ 1838, p. 205.
[14] ‘Nat. Library, Horses,’ vol. xii. p. 208.
[15] Gervais, ‘Hist. Nat. Mamm.,’ tom. ii. p. 143. Owen, ‘British Fossil Mammals,’ p. 383.