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J. Bachman D. D Examination of the Characteristics of Genera & Species. Charleston 1855. Extracted [only] of some Journal.

[in margin:] Sillimans??? Charls Med Journal

p. 9 Variation "sometimes originate in wild species, especially those that have a wide geographical range"

p 11. Dr. Morton's definition of a species "a primordial organic form" honestly begs the question - B. remarks that here preeminence is given not to a characteristic but only to an inference.

p 12. Bachman states that he has commented on the many errors in Morton's article on Hybridity, in May & March 1850. (I presume there must be a Charleston Journal) speaks of Morton recanting in this Journal)

p. 14 says he has seen the successors of the wild Turkey raised frm eggs lose their metallic colour "& become spotted with white in the third generation." They gradually lost their wildness, which caused them "to dash off from their domestic mother & conceal themselves in the grass," the wildness disappeared gradually from generation to generation until they finally "acquired all the docility of the domesticated breeds."

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p. 16 Col. Ham. Smith in "Griffiths Cuvier" vol 3. p. 405-6 has enumerated 10 distinctly marked varieties of the common Hog, & we cd add 6 or 7 others which have appeared since 1827" He admits (or admitted in 1827?) all come from wild Hog: B. States that the wild Hogs have been reclaimed in many instances from the wild animals in Germany & have produced varieties, but as he says the same of Pigeons

p. 18. cannot be trusted.

p 21. speaking of the drawings on the Aegyptian monuments says the "figures of the lower animals (ie not man) are too imperfect for scientific evidence"

p. 22 "If the upper figure be a greyhound as is stated, it must be not only a new species but a new genus" for it has a short upturned tail like a rabbit.

p 23 "Naturalists in all ages had with a remarkable unanimity laid down a rule of interpretation for species, founded on the characters by which species could be distinguished, - that this

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