Image: The Penycuik experiments (1899) (14764915404)

Description: Identifier: penycuikexperime00ewar (find matches) Title: The Penycuik experiments Year: 1899 (1890s) Authors: Ewart, J. C. (James Cossar), 1851-1933 Subjects: Hybridization Telegony Horses Publisher: London : A. and C. Black Contributing Library: Webster Family Library of Veterinary Medicine Digitizing Sponsor: Tufts University View Book Page: Book Viewer About This Book: Catalog Entry View All Images: All Images From Book Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book. Text Appearing Before Image: 1 ^ TELEGONY AND REVERSION. 67 Text Appearing After Image: d» TELEGONT AND REVERSION. quagga tliej resulted from reversion. I prefer the rever-sion explanation^ because it seems to me to be simpler andmore in accordance with established facts. I have fre-quently seen numerous zebra- or quagga-like stripes notonly in foals but also in aged horses^ stripes on the faceas well as on the shoulder, neck, body, and legs. Hencethe possibility of reversion may in the meantime be takenfor granted, and the further question asked. Were themarkings on the colts sufficient in themselves to provethat the Arabian mare had been infected by the quagga ?I think it must be admitted that the stripes taken by them-selves are barely sufficient to prove infection. If the paint-ings by Agasse (in the Royal College of Surgeons Museum,Lincolns Inn Fields, London) are accurate, Lord Mortonsquagga-hybrid (Fig. 14) was but feebly striped. Agasseshows three distinctbut short stripes across the left shoulder,four faint and still shorter stripes on the neck, ten cross-strip Note About Images Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original work.
Title: The Penycuik experiments (1899) (14764915404)
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