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Horse Sketched in a Paleolithic Cave, 1870s-1930s

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Identifier: Coll-1434/318
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Illustration of a horse sketched in a Paleolithic cave.

Dates: 1870s-1930s
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Letter to James Cossar Ewart from Arnold Lang, 21 April 1914

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Identifier: Coll-14/9/20/6
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Lang asks for permission to publish some figures from Ewart's work in his own forthcoming volume on heredity and to borrow some of Ewart's papers, including The Penycuik Experiments. He also asks for advice on where to purchase good photographs of equidae-hybrids.

Dates: 21 April 1914
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

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
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Letter to James Cossar Ewart from Henry Fairfield Osborn, 30 November 1904

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Identifier: Coll-14/9/10/120
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Osborn confirms that he is continuing to gather information regarding his and Ewart's trip to Mexico in February 1905. He also writes that he would like slides made of Ewart's original drawings representing the ontogeny of the horse.

Dates: 30 November 1904
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Letter to James Cossar Ewart from Matthew Horace Hayes, 05 September 1902

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Identifier: Coll-14/9/8/70
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Hayes states that he hopes Ewart received the pulls of blocks he had produced from the negatives of the Norwegian pony and the long-maned pony, bay and foal. He has also recently received some photographs of typical Australian and Chinese ponies. He is pleased that Ewart thinks favourably of the idea of the two of them collaborating on the writing of a book on horse breeding and proposes to first publish a few articles in the Live Stock Journal.

Dates: 05 September 1902
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 Theodore Andrea Cooke, 01 February 1912

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Identifier: Coll-14/9/18/3
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Cook offers to publish Ewart's article on horse breeding in The Field and enquires whether there are any diagrams or photographs Ewart wishes to include.

Dates: 01 February 1912
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Letter to James Cossar Ewart from Sir William Ridgeway, 28 January 1903

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Identifier: Coll-14/9/9/9
Scope and Contents Ridgeway states that he would very much appreciate a cliche of 'Matopo' (a zebra stallion). He adds that he has some blocks of the Kilimanjaro and Somali zebra that would be of interest to Ewart in his research on the zebra. He thinks that his knowledge of the Achaen horse would be of interest to Ewart, as he believes them to be the same as both the small horses of Northern Britain in the time of Caesar, and those of the Danube area. He discusses the spread of the horse into Africa. He...
Dates: 28 January 1903
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 Sir William Ridgeway, 11 July 1904

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Identifier: Coll-14/9/10/75
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Ridgeway writes that he will write to Sanson for details of his North African horses. He thanks Ewart for his help with proofreading and for the loan of his illustrative blocks.

Dates: 11 July 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)) 4
Hayes, Matthew Horace, 1842-1904 (veterinarian and author on horses) 2
Osborn, Henry Fairfield, 1857-1935 (curator, American Museum of Natural History, New York) 2
Sanson, M., fl 1904 (zoologist) 2
American Museum of Natural History (1869-:) 1
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Bateson, William, 1861-1926 (English biologist and professor of genetics, University of Cambridge) 1
Capitan, Louis, 1854-1929 (French doctor and historian) 1
Cecil, Arthur, Lord, 1851-1913 (captain) 1
Columbia University (1754-:) 1
Cook, Theodore Andrea, Sir, 1867-1928 (art critic and writer) 1
Lang, Arnold, 1855-1914 (Swiss naturalist) 1
Lankester, Edwin Ray, Sir, 1847-1929 (zoologist and professor of zoology, University College London) 1
Logan, 1900s (photographer) 1
Pocock, Reginald Innes, 1863-1947 (British zoologist) 1
Russell, Herbrand Arthur, 11th Duke of Bedford, 1858-1940 1
Salensky, Wladimir, fl1902 (Russian biologist) 1
Southwood, Walter, fl 1907 (publisher) 1
Walter Southwood & Co. (fl. 1907) 1
Woburn Abbey 1
de Azara, Felix, 1742-1821 (Spanish naturalist, geographer and engineer) 1
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