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Letter to James Cossar Ewart from Charles Maitland Penham Burn, 26 November 1906

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Identifier: Coll-14/9/12/28
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Burn writes that it was the dam mare and not the filly that is without corns, and provides some details about the horse.

Dates: 26 November 1906
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Letter to James Cossar Ewart from I. Ijima, 07 June 1905

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Identifier: Coll-14/9/11/11
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Ijima apologises for the six-month delay in replying to Ewart's letter about warts and ergots. He has gathered some information about them from one of his students, Mr Miyashima, who has examined 143 horses and found them all showing warts and ergots on the hind legs. He has confirmed from Professor Sudo of the Agricultural College that all Japanese horses exhibit the growths in question and therefore any horses without them must derive from imported breeds.

Dates: 07 June 1905
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Letter to James Cossar Ewart from Sir Edwin Ray Lankester, 20 June [1905]

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Identifier: Coll-14/9/11/14
Scope and Contents Lankester writes that he has heard from Ewart's return from South America from Lord Arthur Cecil. He asks if he may have the paper Ewart promised him on the chestnuts of the horse being a question of gland structure, to be published in the Quarterly Journal of Microscopical Science. He is able to give Ewart space to publish the plates he showed him illustrating the later development of the horse embryo. The year is not written on the letter, but as...
Dates: 20 June [1905]
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Letter to James Cossar Ewart from Sir William Ridgeway, 21 June 1904

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Identifier: Coll-14/9/10/68
Scope and Contents Ridgeway discusses some of Ewart's critiques of the manuscript of his book. He reports that he is troubled about whether he is justified in stating that that the hock callosities are frequently absent in North African horses and ponies and asks Ewart to check a French reference from the work of Sanson. He asks Ewart for the loan of some illustrative blocks. He posits that changes in colour of horses and cattle could be due to domestication, and thanks Ewart for correcting some of his zebra...
Dates: 21 June 1904
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Letter to James Cossar Ewart from Wilfrid Scawen Blunt, 03 October 1903

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Identifier: Coll-14/9/8/78
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Blunt reassures Ewart that he has not lost interest in his experiments and discoveries. He believes that the four varieties of horse distinguished by differences in their callosites is very important. He is pleased the grey arab given as a filly, has proved useful to Ewart and states that he will be unable to supply a friend of Ewart's with a bay Arabian mare due to the great demand for Arabian horses in the colonies.

Dates: 03 October 1903
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Letter to James Cossar Ewart from William Ridgeway, 06 March 1904

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Identifier: Coll-14/9/10/27
Scope and Contents Ridgeway offers his opinions on Ewart's 'excellent paper'. He states that he is sceptical as to the accuracy of cave drawings of horses, but is glad that Ewart expresses doubts as to the domestication of the horse. He recommends that Ewart provide explicitly the evidence of orseus remains from La Monthe, and is unsure about the claim that there are two different stocks in Arabian horses. He enquires as to the relative sizes of the ergots (growths) in Ewart's Mongolian pony and Przewalski's...
Dates: 06 March 1904
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Letter to James Cossar Ewart from William Ridgeway, 20 April 1904

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Identifier: Coll-14/9/10/40
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Ridgeway reports that he has been in Ireland examining the other objects found along with the three horse skulls in the 'crannog discovery'. He writes that he and Coffey have dated them between the eighth and tenth centuries. He mentions a letter from Walter Harris concerning his enquiries about callosities on the legs of horses in Tangier.

Dates: 20 April 1904
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

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Ridgeway, Sir William, 1853-1926 (classicist and Disney professor of archaeology, University of Cambridge (England)) 3
Blunt, Wilfred Scawen, 1840-1922 (traveller, politician, and poet) 1
Burn, Charles Maitland Penham, fl 1906-d.1916 1
Cecil, Arthur, Lord, 1851-1913 (captain) 1
Coffey, George, 1857-1916 (scholar of Irish history and Keeper of Royal Irish Academy Collections, Dublin (Ireland)) 1
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College of Agriculture, Tokyo Imperial University (fl. 1905) 1
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Harris, Walter Burton, 1866-1933 (traveller, explorer and author) 1
Ijima, I., fl 1905 (professor at Science College, Imperial University, Tokyo) 1
Lankester, Edwin Ray, Sir, 1847-1929 (zoologist and professor of zoology, University College London) 1
Miyashima, fl. 1905 (student at Science College, Imperial University, Tokyo) 1
Sanson, M., fl 1904 (zoologist) 1
Science College, Imperial University of Tokyo (fl. 1905) 1
Sudo, fl 1905 (professor of veterinary science, Agricultural College, Tokyo) 1
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