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Letter to Lord Arthur Cecil from Lord Henry Haughton Reynolds Moreton, 03 August 1901

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Identifier: Coll-14/9/7/22
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Lord Moreton encloses a cheque for £65 for Ewart's experiments. He adds that this is the third and final year for which the sum was promised. The other contributing donors mentioned in the letter are Walter Rothschild and Lord Ducie.

Dates: 03 August 1901

Letter to Lord Arthur Cecil from William Bateson, 13 November 1898

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Identifier: Coll-14/9/4/24
Scope and Contents Bateson writes to Cecil asking for his experience of cross-breeding poultry with other species of birds. Bateson writes that he aims to conduct experiments to determine whether certain distinguishing features of breeds can be blended in crossing, and what differences there are in crossing pure-bred and inbred breeds. He notes that he has been experimenting with White Leghorn chickens, but that he has had difficulty in finding breeds of a strictly recorded pedigree, specifically red combed...
Dates: 13 November 1898

Rum Pony of Lord A[rthur] Cecil, 1870s-1930s

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Identifier: Coll-1434/3114
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Photograph of a Rum pony standing in a paddock in front of a large house in the early 20th century that belonged to Lord A[rthur] Cecil.

Dates: 1870s-1930s

Visitors Book, with index of names, 1895-1898

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Identifier: Coll-14/8/2
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The names are assumed to relate to visitors to Ewart's residence at the Bungalow, Penicuik. Index includes tick boxes next to categories such as 'Sheep and wool' and '21 Days Horse', which possibly relate to people's research interests or purchases. Names include: G. Baldwin Brown, J. Burdon-Sanderson, Arthur Cecil, , A. Geikie, R.B Haldane, F.H.A Marshall, R.C Punnett, Arthur E. Shipley and E.N Wentworth.

Dates: 1895-1898

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Names
Congested Districts Board (Scotland) (1897-1911) 9
Forsyth, James Noel Muller, 1844-1923 (landowner, Quinish, Tobermory) 7
Woburn Abbey 6
Cecil, Frieda, fl1904 (wife of Lord Arthur Cecil) 4
Hagenbeck, Carl, 1844-1913 (German animal dealer and trainer) 4
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Murray, Alexander, 8th Earl of Dunmore or 'Viscount Fincastle', 1872-1962 (British soldier and politician) 3
Cavendish-Bentinck, William John Arthur Charles James, 6th Duke of Portland, 1857-1943 ( landowner, courtier and politician) 2
Galbraith, Charles, c1900s (horse owner) 2
MacDonald, K.L, Major, fl. 1904 (Skirinish, Isle of Skye) 2
Oliphant, George A., Colonel, fl 1898-1910 (employee on Woburn estate, Bedfordshire (England)) 2
Reynolds-Moreton, Henry Haughton, Lord, 1857-1920 (British Liberal Party politician) 2
Reynolds-Moreton, Henry, 3rd Earl of Ducie, 1827-1921 (British courtier and Liberal Party politician) 2
Ritchie, John, fl 1905 2
Rothschild, Sir Lionel Walter, 3rd baronet and 2nd baron Rothschild, 1868-1937 (British banker, politician and zoologist) 2
Russell, Herbrand Arthur, 11th Duke of Bedford, 1858-1940 2
Willoughby, Digby Wentworth Bayard, 9th Baron Middleton, 1844-1922 2
Alexander, Sir Claud, fl 1910-1930 1
Bateson, William, 1861-1926 (English biologist and professor of genetics, University of Cambridge) 1
Brown, Gerard Baldwin, 1849-1932 (Watson-Gordon Professor of Fine Art, University of Edinburgh) 1
Burdon-Sanderson, Sir John Scott, 1825-1905 (regius professor of medicine, University of Oxford) 1
Carnegie Trust for the Universities of Scotland (1901-:) 1
Cathcart, Emily Eliza Steele Gordon, Lady, 1845-1932 (landowner) 1
Cockerell, Theodore Dru Alison, 1866-1948 (American naturalist) 1
Crofters Commission (1886-) 1
Elwes, Henry John, 1846-1922 (traveller and botanist) 1
Ewart, James Cossar, 1851-1933 (zoologist and professor of natural history, University of Edinburgh) 1
Fowler nee Bayley, Alice Janet Clive, Lady, 1856 (wife of Sir John Arthur Fowler, 2nd Baronet) 1
Ganson Brothers (carriage hirers and horse dealersnn) 1
Geikie, Archibald, Sir, 28 December 1835 – 10 November 1924 (Professor of Geology, University of Edinburgh) 1
Gibson-Carmichael, Sir Thomas David, 11th baronet, overseas administrator and art conoisseur 1
Gilmour, Sir John, 1st baronet of Lundin and Montrave, 1845-1920 1
Gower, Millicent Sutherland-Leveson-, 1867-1955 (Duchess of Sutherland) 1
Great Britain and Ireland, India Office. India Office (1858-1947) 1
Hamburg Board of Agriculture (fl 1902) 1
Hope, Estella Mary, Lady, c.1866-1958 (pony breeder and trainer) 1
J and J Cunningham (fl1904) 1
Lankester, Edwin Ray, Sir, 1847-1929 (zoologist and professor of zoology, University College London) 1
London Zoological Gardens (1828-:) 1
Lydekker, Richard, 1849-1915 (palaeontologist) 1
Mackenzie, J.H Munro, fl1902-1908 (Scottish pony breeder) 1
Marshall, Francis Hugh Adam, 1878-1949 (reader in agricultural physiology, Christ's College, University of Cambridge) 1
Marshall, Henry B., fl 1904 (businessman and animal breeder) 1
Martin, Thomas M., fl 1903 1
Midwood, G. Norris, fl 1902 1
Punnett, Reginald Crundall, 1875-1967 (geneticist and professor of biology, University of Cambridge) 1
Reid, Charles, 1837-1929 (Scottish photographer) 1
Shackleton, Ernest Henry, Sir, 1874-1922 (polar explorer) 1
Shipley, Sir Arthur Everett, 1861-1927 (zoologist) 1
Sinclair, John, 1st Baron Pentland, 1860-1925 (Secretary of Scotland 1905-1912 ) 1
Tattersalls (1766-:) 1
University of Edinburgh (Scottish University) 1
War Office, Whitehall (1722-1964) 1
Wentworth, Edward Norris, 1887-1959 (American animal breeding professor) 1
von Schroder, William Henry, Baron, fl 1906 (merchant banker) 1
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