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[Illustration: AFRICAN ELEPHANT]




       DOMESTICATED ANIMALS

  THEIR RELATION TO MAN AND TO HIS
    ADVANCEMENT IN CIVILIZATION


               BY


    NATHANIEL SOUTHGATE SHALER

DEAN OF THE LAWRENCE SCIENTIFIC SCHOOL OF
         HARVARD UNIVERSITY


          _ILLUSTRATED_


            NEW YORK
      CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS
             1908


        COPYRIGHT, 1895, BY
      CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS




CONTENTS


                                                                    PAGE
INTRODUCTION,                                                          1


THE DOG

Ancestry of the Domesticated Dogs.--Early Uses of the Animal:
Variations induced by Civilization.--Shepherd-dogs: their
Peculiarities; other Breeds.--Possible Intellectual
Advances.--Evils of Specialized Breeding.--Likeness of Emotions
of Dogs to those of Man: Comparison with other Domesticat