The Archive · 1923

The Weak Link

In view of my experience I cannot refrain, therefore, from exposing.the weak link in Dr. Keylock's interesting chain of argtiment where he says:

"The true Mongolian pony has not nitered in any direction because he has been bred by natural selection under unchanging. conditions of environment, he is just as much a fixed breed as the. English thoroughbred or the Shetland pony, further, he will develop no hew features if kept under the same conditions."

The change in the breed of the Mongo] pony been -extraordinarily pronounced during the past eight or 10 years, and what. else could one -haye expected, seeing that the country, the very home of the Mongol pony,. has drifted. quite out of Chinese into Russian control? Authentic news I received-in the last. days, and

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