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Lankester, Edwin Ray, Sir, 1847-1929 (zoologist and professor of zoology, University College London)

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Found in 17 Collections and/or Records:

Letter to James Cossar Ewart from Edwin Ray Lankester, 30 March 1882

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Identifier: Coll-14/9/1/11
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Lankester thanks Ewart for his congratulations upon gaining the Professorship of Natural History at the University of Edinburgh. He suggests they should arrange a meeting, as 'there are schemes in the air which we must keep an eye on'.

Dates: 30 March 1882
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of James Cossar Ewart / Correspondence / Correspondence 1875-1887

Letter to James Cossar Ewart from Edwin Ray Lankester, 18 April 1882

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Identifier: Coll-14/9/1/12
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Lankester announces his resignation from the Chair of Natural History at the University of Edinburgh, and states that he will be staying at University College London. He gives the main reasons for his resignation as 'ten months are required in Edinburgh instead of three as I supposed, and that there are no laboratories nor a museum, nor likely to be for many years to come' and that the Executive Commission 'may reduce the value of the post to any extent.'

Dates: 18 April 1882
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of James Cossar Ewart / Correspondence / Correspondence 1875-1887

Letter to James Cossar Ewart from James N. Forsyth, 20 May 1904

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Identifier: Coll-14/9/10/53
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Forsyth reports that the other members of the Congested Districts Board are complimentary about Ewart's proposed Report on Ponies, although because parts of it have already appeared in the Transactions of the Highland and Agricultural Society, they do not wish to publish it. He hopes that the pony 'Atholl' has arrived in South Uist.

Dates: 20 May 1904
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of James Cossar Ewart / Correspondence / Correspondence 1904

Letter to James Cossar Ewart from John McDonald, 30 May 1904

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Identifier: Coll-14/9/10/58
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McDonald proposes to give Ewart a grant of £10, on top of any grant that may be obtained from the Congested Districts Board, to pay the carriage of the pony to Keppoch and back, and for a man to attend him. He invites Ewart to his camp near Tain to see 'ponies from all parts'.

Dates: 30 May 1904
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of James Cossar Ewart / Correspondence / Correspondence 1904

Letter to James Cossar Ewart from Sir Edwin Ray Lankester, 20 June [1905]

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Identifier: Coll-14/9/11/14
Scope and Contents Lankester writes that he has heard from Ewart's return from South America from Lord Arthur Cecil. He asks if he may have the paper Ewart promised him on the chestnuts of the horse being a question of gland structure, to be published in the Quarterly Journal of Microscopical Science. He is able to give Ewart space to publish the plates he showed him illustrating the later development of the horse embryo. The year is not written on the letter, but as...
Dates: 20 June [1905]
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of James Cossar Ewart / Correspondence / Correspondence 1905

Letter to James Cossar Ewart from Sir Edwin Ray Lankester, 15 December [1913]

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Identifier: Coll-14/9/19/60
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Lankester writes that he will be glad to have Ewart's horse paper in reprint and to publish some work on the hoof.

The year is not written on the letter.

Dates: 15 December [1913]
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of James Cossar Ewart / Correspondence / Correspondence 1913

Letter to James Cossar Ewart from Sir William Ridgeway, 04 June 1905

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Identifier: Coll-14/9/11/10
Scope and Contents Ridgeway mentions Lydekker and Lankester's work on the preorbital part of the skulls of race horses and their theory that the 'blood-horse' derives from the Indian Equus sivalensis. Ridgeway believes that it is more likely to derive from Africa and Equus stenosis and asks Ewart if he has noticed any preorbital depressions in the skulls of Celtic ponies, as this could support the argument that the Celtic pony is a separate species or...
Dates: 04 June 1905
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of James Cossar Ewart / Correspondence / Correspondence 1905

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Animal embryology 2
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Applications for Positions 2
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Lectures and Lecturing 2
Ponies 2
Resignation from Office 2
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Archaeology 1
Bones 1
Dover (England) 1
Elections 1
Embryos 1
Equus sivalensis 1
Eriskay pony 1
Fish 1
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Geological Surveys 1
Hoofs 1
Horse Breeds 1
Illustrations 1
Isle of Man 1
Laboratories 1
Okapi 1
Palaeontology 1
Proofreading 1
Przewalski's Horse 1
Racehorses 1
Report writing 1
Reports and Dissertations 1
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