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Excerpt from Letter to the Rev. John Bachman, D.D., On the Question of Hybridity in Animals, Considered in Reference to the Unity of the Human Species
I have heard that on the plains, my black cat, the yaguarundi and the eyra, all unite with the domestic cat. From this connection crossed breeds will necessarily result and if, in the course of time, these coun tries should become populous, and these wild-cats, as would infallibly be the case, should be extirpated, could it then, with any propriety, be affirmed that all the domestic races proceeded from one species which had remained wild, as the naturalists of the old world maintain Q I cite this passage entire for several reasons: lst. To show that it does exist in De Azzara; 2d. Because it proves him an advocate for the principle of fertile hybridity; and 3d. Because it appears that I had attached too much importance to the statement, inasmuch as the great naturalist does not record the facts from his personal knowledge, but merely on the information of others, who may possibly have been mis taken.
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