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THIS volume is an important contribution to our knowledge of the relations existing between domestic animals and human economy. It forms a large octavo volume of nearly 600 pages, compiled from all sources, and of its interest the reader may form some idea from the following summary of its contents. After a brief introduction, we have our domestic animals considered from a zoological standpoint; here the interesting questions of hybridisation and of the returning of once-domesticated animals to a feral state, are investigated. Next the subject of the profitableness of such animals is considered, the author alluding but casually to the fact that some animals were decidedly domesticated, without an eye to profit; he cites the case of some South American aborigines keeping a “grylla” in their houses for the perfume, but has apparently overlooked the case of the Greeks domesticating the cigale. He on purpose omits the subject of animals in connection with “worship,” quoting Tylor, that “it is a subject not wanting in interest, but is one abounding in difficulties.”
Die Haustiere und ihre Beziehungen zur Wirtschaft des Menschen.
Eine geographische Studie von Eduard Hahn. Large 8vo, pp. 581, and a map. (Leipzig: Duncker and Humblot, 1896.)
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Die Haustiere und ihre Beziehungen zur Wirtschaft des Menschen. Nature 53, 364 (1896). https://doi.org/10.1038/053364a0
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