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Descriptive guide to the grounds, buildings and collections
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illustrating the plum family, to which belong the plums,
cherries, apricots, and peaches. As many of the species of…
Helen Sheppard Oral History Interview (Excerpt)
Sheppard Helen 2017-01-18 Transcript
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Elizabeth Weinstein (EW): My name is Elizabeth Weinstein. [ am a board of trustees…
The natural history of dogs : Canidae or genus Canis of authors ; including also the genera Hyaena and Proteles / by Lieut. Col…
MEMOIR OF PALLAS. 37
pearances, and excited an interest which has since
yielded an abundant harvest.*
Our Naturalist set off…
50 MEMOIR OF PALLAS.
being trained. A Kirguis will often give a first-
rate horse for an eagle of good breed, whilst he will…
MEMOIR OF PALLAS. 53
In 1781, he began a work which he meant parti-
cularly to dedicate to the insects of Russia (Jfeones…
58 MEMOIR OF PALLAS.
the world has ever seen. China, India, Persia, and
the whole of Tartary, were neeessarily subjected to…
60 MEMOIR OF PALLAS.
and government, but devotes a large portion of his
work to an account of their religion, which is truly…
66 MEMOIR OF PALLAS.
disappointment :—*“ Were this the proper place to
inform my readers of the disquietude and hardships…
63 MEMOIR OF PALLAS,
phy. We used every endeavour to prevail upon
him to quit the country and accompany us to Yng-
land;…
74 APPENDIX.
the Count Lacépéde, 1788 ; and the other
in 8 vols. 8vo. and onc of plates, with
Notes by Lamarck and Longles,…
88 INTRODUGTION.
Now, adverting to the circumstance of the fertility
of the mixed hreed hetween wolf and dog (one cer-…
THE WOLVES. 131
when they wish to conceal a part of their food or
the droppings about their lairs. The parent wolves
punish…
136 THE WOLVES.
zally repel the attack, killing one or more of the
enemy. Smgle horses fight a wolf by striling with’
the…
152 THE BLACK WOLF.
now the lobo will accompany strings of mules as
soon as it becomes dusky. They arc seen bonnding
from…
THE COMMON JACKAL 215
erooked ; the tail is straight, somewhat longer in
proportion, and more brashy than in the wolf; the…
223
CORSAC DOG-FOX,
Cynalopex corsac.
PLATE XVL
Wz think with Monsieur Desmarcts, that this
species should he placed with…