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Aristotle On Sterility 275 which is mentioned in the same ancient catalogues that also listHistory of Animals as having nine books – a detail that need not carry muchweight but fits the argument nicely. How the work came to be added toHistory of Animals in the later tradition is not difficult to imagine, seeingthat it provides a more or less smooth continuation of the subject matterof book 9 (7). The work known as ‘History of Animals book 10’ constitutesone of the several ‘medical’ works attributed to Aristotle in the indirecttradition. Thanks to its erroneous inclusion in History of Animals in thelater transmission, it is the only one of these works to have survived.PostscriptSince the original publication of this chapter, vol. i of Balme’s criticaledition of the Historia animalium has come out (Cambridge, 2002), whichalso contains a new text of ‘Book 10’. A commentary on ‘Book 10’ isinpreparation by Lesley Dean-Jones <strong>and</strong> Jim Hankinson.

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