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Draft letter to Herbrand Arthur Russell, 11th Duke of Bedford from James Cossar Ewart, 14 January 1909

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Identifier: Coll-14/9/15/1
Scope and Contents Ewart writes that the examination of the skulls from the Roman fort near Melrose has proved that horses representing four distinct varieties or species were living under domestication during the first century. The Zoology Board of the Royal Society Government Grant Committee have started an investigation to ascertain the origins of various species of horse by examining bones and cross-breeding. Ewart requests Russell's financial help with meeting the costs of this investigation....
Dates: 14 January 1909
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Letter to James Cossar Ewart from A. Irving, 26 October 1909

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Identifier: Coll-14/9/15/27
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Irving mentions that he has been able to show that the formula for the 'coffin-bones' of prehistoric horses doesn't work. However, he does confirm that the metacarpals of the Stortford horse are identical with those of the 'pleistocene' horses of Ilford in the Thames Valley and Grantchester.

Dates: 26 October 1909
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Letter to James Cossar Ewart from A. Irving, 27 June 1912

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Identifier: Coll-14/9/18/45
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Irving writes that he has compared a horse skull at the Geological Museum with that of the Stortford skeleton and concludes that the former resembles the two skulls of Ewart's from Newstead. The skull was found in a brick yard in Melton Mowbray. Irving provides a table of comparative measurements for the Stortford and Melton Mowbray horse skulls.

Dates: 27 June 1912
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Letter to James Cossar Ewart from A. Irving, 14 August 1913

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Identifier: Coll-14/9/19/40
Scope and Contents Irving asks Ewart for his opinion of the paper concerning the Equus robustus horse type, and encloses a copy of the Section D paper from the British Association. He reports that he saw and handled the horse tooth found in the Piltdown gravels, and he believes it to be part of Equus robustus. He wonders whether it would be worth a short note in Nature, and wonders how far back Equus...
Dates: 14 August 1913
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Letter to James Cossar Ewart from A. Irving, 22 September 1913

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Identifier: Coll-14/9/19/46
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Irving writes that he could not get hold of any copies of the abstract of his paper on the Solutré horse, but that his presentation of it went well. He acknowledges Ewart's help with his work with the Equus robustus.

Dates: 22 September 1913
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Letter to James Cossar Ewart from A. Irving, 26 September 1913

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Identifier: Coll-14/9/19/47
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Irving writes that he has had the opportunity to inspect several 'mustangs' in a stud, and was struck by their resemblance to the Stortford horse, except in the development of the hind quarters. He speculates that differences in the development of the hind quarters in various breeds may be connected to how hilly their local region is.

Dates: 26 September 1913
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

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

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Identifier: Coll-14/9/19/50
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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
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Letter to James Cossar Ewart from Edwin Ray Lankester, 12 February 1907

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Identifier: Coll-14/9/13/2
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Lankester writes that he would like to have the Sarawak horse's skull for the British Museum, as well as some Roman horses. He asks Ewart if he would give the Swiney lectures on 'the history and palaeontology of horses' or 'horses of the past and present', as Scharff has postponed giving them until the following year. Lankester states that he believes the preorbital depression in the modern horse's skull once held a gland.

Dates: 12 February 1907
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Letter to James Cossar Ewart from Edwin Ray Lankester, 16 April [1907]

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Identifier: Coll-14/9/13/10
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Lankester thanks Ewart for the proof of his 'horse paper' and reports that he is setting up a complete skeleton of a Przewalski's horse from Woburn. He asks Ewart to tell Mr Linton to send the Roman horse to him at the British Museum.

The year is not written on the letter.

Dates: 16 April [1907]
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Letter to James Cossar Ewart from Edwin Ray Lankester, 30 April [1907]

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Identifier: Coll-14/9/13/12
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Lankester writes that the box of Roman horse bones has arrived and asks Ewart to confirm what dates he will be giving his twelve Swiney lectures.

The year is not written on the letter.

Dates: 30 April [1907]
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

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Irving, A., fl 1909 6
Ridgeway, Sir William, 1853-1926 (classicist and Disney professor of archaeology, University of Cambridge (England)) 4
Russell, Herbrand Arthur, 11th Duke of Bedford, 1858-1940 4
Duerst, J.U, fl 1908 (zoologist) 3
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Gregory, John Walter, 1864-1932 (professor of geology, University of Glasgow) 2
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Al-Masudi, Abu-al-Hasan Ali, d 956 (Arab traveller and historian) 1
American Museum of Natural History (1869-:) 1
Bateson, William, 1861-1926 (English biologist and professor of genetics, University of Cambridge) 1
Blunt, Wilfred Scawen, 1840-1922 (traveller, politician, and poet) 1
British Association for the Advancement of Science (1831-:) 1
Brown, Horatio Robert Forbes, 1854-1926 (Scottish historian) 1
Capitan, Louis, 1854-1929 (French doctor and historian) 1
Cockerell, Theodore Dru Alison, 1866-1948 (American naturalist) 1
Coffey, George, 1857-1916 (scholar of Irish history and Keeper of Royal Irish Academy Collections, Dublin (Ireland)) 1
Dawkins, William Boyd, 1837-1929 (geologist, palaeontologist and antiquary) 1
Geological Museum. Museum of Practical Geology (1835-:) 1
Gonville and Caius College, University of Cambridge (1348-) 1
Gordon, William, fl 1913 1
Harris, Walter Burton, 1866-1933 (traveller, explorer and author) 1
Hayes, Matthew Horace, 1842-1904 (veterinarian and author on horses) 1
Heape, Walter, 1855-1929 (embryologist and professor) 1
Hesse, Professor, fl 1910 1
Linton, Andrew, fl1903 1
Lönnberg, Einar, 1865-1942 (Swedish zoologist and conservationist) 1
Robertson, J.B, fl 1910 1
Royal Society Government Grant Committee (fl.1907-:) 1
Salensky, Wladimir, fl1902 (Russian biologist) 1
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