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Osborn, Henry Fairfield, 1857-1935 (curator, American Museum of Natural History, New York)

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Found in 23 Collections and/or Records:

Draft letter of introduction to Charles Alexander Sheldon from Henry Fairfield Osborn (unsigned), 18 February 1905

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Identifier: Coll-14/9/11/5
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Osborn introduces himself and Ewart and describes their research in Mexico on the common breeds of horses which are the offspring or descendants of the horses originally introduced by the Spaniards. He states that they wish to gather as much information as possible about the behaviour and character of the horses, as they can only stay ten days in Chihuahua, Mexico.

Dates: 18 February 1905
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of James Cossar Ewart / Correspondence / Correspondence 1905

Letter to James Cossar Ewart from Carl Hagenbeck, 08 April 1902

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Identifier: Coll-14/9/8/30
Scope and Contents Hagenbeck thanks Ewart for sending the photographs of 'Remus' and a black hybrid mare, along with an estimated cost for the pair. He asks if Ewart could send him the stallion which is for Henry Fairfield Osborn in New York, as he wishes to combine the shipping with some animals of his own. He adds that he now has a pair of Chapman's zebras, which he is sending from Hamburg to India. He would like to negotiate the sale of two Java ponies to Ewart in exchange for a stallion and two Shetland...
Dates: 08 April 1902
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of James Cossar Ewart / Correspondence / Correspondence 1902

Letter to James Cossar Ewart from Henry F. Osborn, 07 May 1904

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Identifier: Coll-14/9/10/48
Scope and Contents Osborn writes concerning his forthcoming trip to England and asks if he might meet with Ewart at Woburn Abbey when he will be visiting the Duke of Bedford. He mentions that he will see Ewart's zebra hybrids in St Louis in the autumn and that he will send Ewart a photograph of Neohipparion, 'the most deerlike horse yet discovered'. He states that he will be requiring some images from Ewart to illustrate his lecture series on the evolution of the horse at Columbia...
Dates: 07 May 1904
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of James Cossar Ewart / Correspondence / Correspondence 1904

Letter to James Cossar Ewart from Henry Fairfield Osborn, 16 January 1902

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Identifier: Coll-14/9/8/2
Scope and Contents Osborn states that he has already obtained a photograph of the Przewalski's colts and hopes that the Duke of Bedford will take some enlarged photographs showing their development, and also a watercolour painting showing the colour changes in their coats. He hopes that Ewart will put his views of the Mongolian pony down in a book. Many of the dun striped variety are to be found in Texas and Mexico. He also asks to be informed if a suitable Shetland pony comes on to the market, and would be...
Dates: 16 January 1902
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of James Cossar Ewart / Correspondence / Correspondence 1902

Letter to James Cossar Ewart from Henry Fairfield Osborn, 28 March 1902

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Identifier: Coll-14/9/8/26
Scope and Contents

Osborn writes regarding the Shetland stallion that he had asked Ewart to purchase for him. He requests that the stallion be shipped from Glasgow to New York with Anchor Line and requests that if the pony should die en route, that his body be preserved. He also provides details of his striped dun which is being shipped East.

Dates: 28 March 1902
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of James Cossar Ewart / Correspondence / Correspondence 1902

Letter to James Cossar Ewart from Henry Fairfield Osborn, 13 June 1902

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Identifier: Coll-14/9/8/44
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Osborn states that the pony has arrived safely in New York. He will have the animal photographed for Ewart soon. He mentions not having read the papers by Mendel and Bateson. He announces that he will be writing to the Duke of Bedford to say that he would be interested in receiving the skeleton of one of his Russian horses if one should die. He also states that James Gidley is revising the species of their miocene, and he criticises Othniel Charles Marsh's phylogeny.

Dates: 13 June 1902
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of James Cossar Ewart / Correspondence / Correspondence 1902

Letter to James Cossar Ewart from Henry Fairfield Osborn, 25 April 1904

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Identifier: Coll-14/9/10/41
Scope and Contents

Osborn thanks Ewart for the 'Multiple Origin of Horses and Ponies', stating that it will be useful to him on his forthcoming trip to Europe, where he hopes to meet Ewart.

Dates: 25 April 1904
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of James Cossar Ewart / Correspondence / Correspondence 1904

Letter to James Cossar Ewart from Henry Fairfield Osborn, 28 August 1904

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Identifier: Coll-14/9/10/92
Scope and Contents

Osborn thanks Ewart for his visit to Penicuik and asks him for some glass slides and photographs. He recommends that when Ewart visits the British Museum again he studies the hoofs of Onohippidium as they resemble a zebra more than an ass or horse. He asks Ewart to procure him a hoof of an ass or Przewalski's horse if he is able.

Dates: 28 August 1904
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of James Cossar Ewart / Correspondence / Correspondence 1904

Letter to James Cossar Ewart from Henry Fairfield Osborn, 23 November 1904

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Identifier: Coll-14/9/10/119
Scope and Contents

Osborn requests some lantern slides to be made up for him from Ewart's negatives. He recommends that Ewart asks Sir William Turner to write to the Secretary of the Carnegie Institution to confirm that Carnegie has approved of their trip to Mexico.

Dates: 23 November 1904
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of James Cossar Ewart / Correspondence / Correspondence 1904

Letter to James Cossar Ewart from Henry Fairfield Osborn, 30 November 1904

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Identifier: Coll-14/9/10/120
Scope and Contents

Osborn confirms that he is continuing to gather information regarding his and Ewart's trip to Mexico in February 1905. He also writes that he would like slides made of Ewart's original drawings representing the ontogeny of the horse.

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

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Museums 8
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Photographs 5
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article 4
Hides and Skins 3
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Species 3
Stallions 3
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Animal Breeding 1
Animal embryology 1
Arabian Horses 1
Art, Prehistoric 1
Asses 1
Chapman's Zebra 1
Colt (horse) 1
Domestic Animals 1
Exhibitions 1
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Hoofs 1
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Iceland pony 1
Java pony 1
Jewellery 1
Miocene Epoch 1
Mongolian Pony 1
Muscle Cramp 1
Neohipparion 1
Nomenclature 1
Onohippidium 1
Ontogeny 1
Photography--Negatives 1
Phylogeny 1
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