Charles Hamilton Smith

The Equidæ Or Genus Equus of Authors

The Natural History of Horses

Before the advent of machines, horses ruled supreme. They were the solace and servant of mankind in a life still devoid of railroads and automobiles. Thus in a world dominated by horses, the appearance of a book containing humanity's collective equine knowledge marked an important event, especially as this was no example of obsolete scholarship. Though published in 1841, the book more accurately reflected the recently departed 18th century, with its reliance on equines, rather than the technological fascination characterizing the emerging Victorian era. This is a masterpiece of Equus erudition. An English soldier turned scientist, Charles Hamilton Smith was concerned that the public was being misled by erroneous accounts or the absence of accurate information. He set about enabling equestrian essentials to emerge from obscurity, thereby authoring a book which became the principal authority on all aspects of horse related wisdom. Smith consulted, translated and transcribed every type of original texts, including works in Greek, Latin, Arabic and many Oriental sources. Nor was any topic off limits. An early genetic examination of curly haired horses in Columbia was presented. The author's most astonishing accomplishment was the careful documentation of more than a hundred ancient and extinct breeds, including the Katschenstzi of Tartary, a shining black horse with white mane and the Sardinian wild horse, an indigenous animal not imported by man. This new edition is an equestrian time capsule, complete with the lost expertise of another age. With a Preface by Britain's renowned modern equestrian historian, Dr. Elaine Walker, this timeless book also contains Smith's original colour prints of ancient, rare and extinct equids.

Equus - Comprising the Natural History of the Horse, Ass, Onager, Quagga and Zebra

The Equidae Or Genus Equus of Authors : with Portrait and Memoir of Gesner

The Natural History of Horses, with Memoir of Gesner

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The Equidae Or Genus Equus of Authors

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: that scarcely one fortieth of existing craters is now in activity, or about one hundred in four thousand; and yet, that there are still about two thousand eruptions in a century, or about twenty per annum. Moreover, Iceland offers a comparatively recent example to what extent a volcanic eruption may ruin a great region of fertile country. Since this was written, another devastation has taken place in the same island. BONES OF MAN AMONG ORGANIC REMAINS. For the further illustration of this important question, it is requisite to examine whether the organic remains of extinct animals, found in the soil, and chiefly in limestone caverns and clefts of rock, are accompanied by human remains, bearing similar characters of antiquity. Although, as yet, few systematic researches on this head have been made, even in Europe, and it is likely that in many bone deposits no human exuviae have been noticed, still a sufficient number of instances attest to the fact, and leave the question open only on the ground that they were accidental cases, not belonging to the same period. Donati, Germer, Rasoumouski, and Guetard, maintained that human bones had been found intermixed with those of lost species of mammiferae, in several places. They had been detected in England, t in caves and fissures, enumerated by Professor Buckland; they were found at Meissen in Saxony, and at Dur- fort in France, by M. Firmas. A fossilized skeleton, found in the schist rock, when excavating the fortifications of Quebec, Baron Cuvier, in the last conversation we had with him on the subject (in 1824), admitted that although the human fragments discovered at Cette, near Monaco, and in the caves of the Apennines, might be more recent, the opinions then in vogue would require considerable modification. tAt Kirkby, ..

The Natural History of the Human Species

Its Typical Forms, Primeval Distribution, Filiations, and Migrations ...

The Natural History of the Human Species, Its Typical Forms, Prime Val Distribution, Filiations, and Migrations ...

Georges baron Cuvier

George Robert Gray

John Edward Gray

Edward Pidgeon

Edward Griffith

The Animal Kingdom: The class Pisces

The Class Pisces

Samuel Kneeland

With a Preliminary Abstract of the Views of Blumenbach, Prichard, Bachman, Agassiz, and Other Authors of Repute on the Subject

The Natural History of the Human Species: Its Typical Forms, Primeval Distribution, Filiations, and Migrations

The Animal Kingdom: Synopsis of the species of the class Mammalia, as arranged with reference to their organization by Cuvier and other naturalists : with specific characters, synonyma, &c. &c. 1827

The Animal Kingdom: The Mollusca and Radiata

The Animal Kingdom: The class Mammalia

The Animal Kingdom: The class Aves

Canidæ Or Genus Canis of Authors. Including Also the Genera Hyæna and Proteles

The Natural History of Dogs

Vol. 1, with memoir of Pallas, vol. 2, with memoir of F. d'Azara

The natural history of dogs, including also the genera hyaena and proteles

Charles Hamilton Smith

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