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Field notebook of Alexander Carmichael, 1874, 1877 and 1891

 Series
Identifier: Coll-97/CW108
Scope and Contents Notebook belonging to Alexander Carmichael containing songs, poems, tales, names, vocabulary and expressions collected in the Outer Hebrides [Na h-Eileanan an Iar]. The first part of the volume contains transcriptions taken as Carmichael listened to informants in 1877 while the second part appears to be copies of previous transcriptions of material collected by Carmichael and Rev Malcolm MacPhail in 1874 and written into the notebook in 1891. Amongst the material is a version of the lament...
Dates: 1874, 1877 and 1891

Letter to James Cossar Ewart from A. Irving, 30 September 1913

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Identifier: Coll-14/9/19/50
Scope and Contents

Irving writes that since he read his paper on the Solutré horse at Birmingham, another molar of Equus robustus has been excavated, and provides measurements. He asks for Ewart's advice on publishing his paper.

Dates: 30 September 1913

Letter to James Cossar Ewart from Edwin Ray Lankester, 22 April [1912]

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Identifier: Coll-14/9/18/24
Scope and Contents

Lankester presses Ewart to reply to his letters and send him his paper on the embryonic development of the horse. He hopes to be able to send Ewart his account of the new fluid implements from below the red clay of Suffolk.

The year is not written on the letter.

Dates: 22 April [1912]

Letter to James Cossar Ewart from Richard Francis Scharff, 12 March 1909

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Identifier: Coll-14/9/15/6
Scope and Contents

Scharff provides notes relating to the measurements of the metacarpals and metatarsels from the centre of the provincial articular surface to the dorsal ridge of various prehistoric horses that have been uncovered in excavations.

Dates: 12 March 1909

Letter to James Cossar Ewart from Richard Francis Scharff, 16 March 1909

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Identifier: Coll-14/9/15/8
Scope and Contents

Scharff thanks Ewart for giving him his views on the metacarpals and provides some more measurements of various prehistoric horses that that have been uncovered in excavations.

Dates: 16 March 1909

Letter to James Cossar Ewart from William Boyd Dawkins (incomplete), 08 December 1907

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Identifier: Coll-14/9/13/47
Scope and Contents

Dawkins writes that he is sure the Glastonbury Committee will allow Ewart to study the remains of horses among their collections of refuse bones and provides the address of the master digger. He adds that he has not received 'the Roman Skulls from Newstead.'

The latter part of the letter, including author's signature, is unclear, but the address matches that of William Boyd Dawkins.

Dates: 08 December 1907

Letter to James Cossar Ewart from William Gordon, 27 September 1913

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Identifier: Coll-14/9/19/48
Scope and Contents

Gordon hopes that the ewe and spotted lamb arrived safely in Leith. He provides details about the price his lambs fetched in Aberdeen. He writes that he is going on with the excavation of the Brough and has found some stone implements as well as the bones of horses, cattle and sheep, which he offers to send to Ewart for investigation.

Dates: 27 September 1913

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Scharff, Richard Francis, 1858-1934 (naturalist, keeper of the Natural History Collections, Science and Art Museum, Dublin) 2
Baleloch SSPCK School (-1801) 1
Campbell, Anthony, 1825-1904 (fisherman and crofter | Kentangaval | Barra) 1
Carmichael, Alexander, 1832-1912 (Excise officer | folklorist and antiquarian | Edinburgh | Scotland) 1
Dawkins, William Boyd, 1837-1929 (geologist, palaeontologist and antiquary) 1