Osborn, Henry Fairfield, 1857-1935 (curator, American Museum of Natural History, New York)
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Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
Letter to James Cossar Ewart from Carl Hagenbeck, 08 April 1902
Item
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
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
Letter to James Cossar Ewart from Sir William Ridgeway, 12 September 1904
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Identifier: Coll-14/9/10/101
Scope and Contents
Ridgeway responds to some of Ewart's comments on his proofs by writing that he will check the details of the zebra hybrid, and enquires about the date Spanish blood was introduced into the Hebrides in the eighteenth century. He reports that he has written to Osborn at the Carnegie Trust in favour of Ewart's grant proposal and that he will source some other potential funders while he is in Ireland.
Dates:
12 September 1904
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- Animals--Colour 1
- Animals--Transportation 1
- Chapman's Zebra 1
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- Horses 1
- Illustrations 1
- Java pony 1
- Lectures and Lecturing 1
- Mares 1
- Neohipparion 1
- Proofreading 1
- Shetland Pony 1
- Social Interaction 1
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