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Spicilegia Zoologica Fas. 13° 1779 on the Musk Deer.

p. 18 — In first year great Canines absent — in old age were 3 inch long unless broken by fighting — in old females at this age a rudiment scarcely 1/2 a line above gums.

p. 23 an excellent account of odoriferous glands in all manes & which are common to 2 sexes.

p. 24. about consistence & quantity not increasing at time of rut, admits its presence connected with reproduction, but gives only conjectural & unsatisfactory explanation

Darwin cited this in Descent 1: 267, n6: "Pallas, 'Spicilegia Zoolog.' Fasc. xii. 1777, p. 29."

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not all Antelope

[Pairs] — Owen gives Table.

(So [illeg] an [illeg] my [illeg] been)

Saiga p. 28

Fasc 12 — 1777

Darwin cited this in Descent 1: 267, n6: "Owen, in his 'Anatomy of Vertebrates' (vol. iii. 1868, p. 633) gives a table incidentally showing which species of Antelopes pair and which are gregarious."

Pallas, Petri S. 1767-1774. Spicilegia zoologica: quibus novae imprimis et obscurae animalium species iconibus, descriptionibus atque commentariis illustrantur. Berlin: August Lange.

Owen, Richard. 1866-1868. On the anatomy of vertebrates. 3 vols. London: Longmans, Green & Co. CUL-DAR.LIB.477 vol. 1 PDF vol. 2 PDF vol. 3 PDF