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Photographs of horse skeletons showing the increase in size of the horse over time. The image shows a small articulated skeleton of the Eohippus, placed beneath the limbs of the original American horse or Equus scotti as mounted in the American Museum of Natural History in New York, USA with a scale next to them showing the progressive increase in size.

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Osborn writes that the Museum hopes to purchase the 'Celtic' pony later that year. They wish to have him in his winter coat so that the skin could be mounted separately from the skeleton, and he asks advice on what time of the year to purchase him. He compliments Ewart on the progress he is making with the breeding of domesticated animals.

Scope and Contents Osborn reports the safe arrival of the Equus caballus and Equus caballus celticus. He feels strongly that the Museum should have Ewart's original type specimen of Equus caballus celticus because it agrees more closely with his original characterisation of the species in the small size of the head. He asks whether it would be practical to have the skin removed and the skeleton sent to them, as the specimen Ewart...

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Osborn writes that he is still working on developing the horse collection at the Museum and preparing his memoir on the Evolution of the Horse. He hears from Director Hornaday that the Scandinavian and Celtic ponies will have to be disposed of as they are eating too much. He once again requests the skeleton and skin of the original Celtic pony to be sent to him.

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Photograph of an articulated skeleton of a prehistoric horse from the Lower Pleistocene in Texas from the American Museum of Natural History in New York City, New York, USA in the early/mid 20th century.

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Photograph (lower) of the 'only known skeleton of the Eohippus or "dawn horse" as preserved in the American Museum of Natural History in New York, USA compared to a photograph (upper) of a skeleton of an English coursing hound, the whippet to show the similarity in body size.