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Letter to James Cossar Ewart from Baron de Parana (in French), with modern English translation (2 copies), [c. 1899]
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Identifier: Coll-14/9/5/40
Scope and Contents
Baron de Parana thanks Ewart for sending a copy of his book on telegony. He then lists the six zebra hybrids in his possession, detailing their physical characteristics, and in particular their height and the dappling on their coats. He discusses telegony and 'infection', which he does not believe in. He cites many human examples to disprove the theory of telegony.
Letter is undated. It is not known who made the translation.
Dates:
[c. 1899]
Letter to James Cossar Ewart from Baron de Parana (in French), with three photographs, 01 February 1899
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Identifier: Coll-14/9/5/10
Scope and Contents
Baron de Parana tells Ewart that he has just read a translation of his article on Burchell's zebra hybrids and mares. He states he is enclosing other papers documenting his own cross-breeding experiments, including three photographs (only two photographs present). He lists the physical characteristics of the offspring resulting from his experiments and makes comparisons with those belonging to Ewart. The photographs depict a Burchell zebra and two of his hybridised offspring, all...
Dates:
01 February 1899
Letter to James Cossar Ewart from Comte Maurice Delamarre de Monchaux (in French), 31 March 1897
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Identifier: Coll-14/9/3/3
Scope and Contents
Delamarre states that he had read about Ewart's researches in hybridisation in a volume of La Revue Scientifique and was enclosing a photograph of an animal which was currently living in the zoological gardens of the Bois de Boulogne (photograph not present).
Dates:
31 March 1897