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MR. BREWER'S memoir on the evolution of the breed of the American trotting-horse (NATURE, vol. xxvii. p. 609), and the statistical tables that accompany it, are full of interest, but I only propose now to concern myself with the latter, which may be easily and usefully discussed by employing a statistical method that I have long advocated. In explanation I will begin by extracting the final terms of four of the lines of his table, as follows:—
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GALTON, F. The American Trotting-Horse. Nature 28, 29 (1883). https://doi.org/10.1038/028029c0
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