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A Zebroid, 1870s-1930s

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Identifier: Coll-1434/2250
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Photograph of a hybrid zebra and [horse or donkey] standing in a pen in the early 20th century.

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

Letter to James Cossar Ewart from A. Hayward, 10 January 1913

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Identifier: Coll-14/9/19/3
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Hayward writes that he would like to capture some Burchell's zebras for his estate in South Africa and enquires whether a hybrid zebra and horse stallion would be fertile. He has heard that the Burchell's zebra mixes more freely with donkeys and mules than with horses.

Dates: 10 January 1913
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Letter to James Cossar Ewart from Alfred Mathieu Giard, 06 May 1894

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Identifier: Coll-14/9/2/4
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Giard, writing from the Sorbonne, replies to Ewart's request for information about French publications on the hybridisation of the horse and zebra.

Dates: 06 May 1894
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Letter to James Cossar Ewart from Alice Blanche Balfour, 04 June 1898

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Identifier: Coll-14/9/4/13
Scope and Contents

Balfour expresses her hope that the Highland and Agricultural Society gives him a grant to continue his experiments and thanks Ewart for accepting her financial assistance. She goes on to discuss the 'infection' of telegony and the positioning of animal markings and gradations in colour on zebras and horses.

Dates: 04 June 1898
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Letter to James Cossar Ewart from Carl Hagenbeck, 26 October 1903

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Identifier: Coll-14/9/9/114
Scope and Contents Hagenbeck writes that Baron von Falz-Fein from Russia and the Baron de Parana both have eight to ten zebra hybrids, and agrees that if their usefulness and strength were more widely known, they would only breed zebroids rather than asses and horses. He asks for the price of Ewart's two zebra hybrids and his Shetland pony and offers his Korea stallion to him as a present, as he wishes to be rid of it. He reports that the Mongolian mares which he got as foster-mothers for the first...
Dates: 26 October 1903
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Letter to James Cossar Ewart from Charles Dawson, [c. 13 September 1915]

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Identifier: Coll-14/9/21/16
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Dawson follows up his letter regarding the horned 'zebra' horse, which he has been told is now 'somewhere in France'. He has made arrangements for its head to be sent to him if it should die. He will shortly be in Edinburgh and wishes to see the horse skull Ewart mentions which seems to bear similar horn-like features. He will also bring some new pieces of Eoanthropus skull from near Piltdown for Ewart to see.

The letter is undated.

Dates: [c. 13 September 1915]
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Letter to James Cossar Ewart from Colonel George A. Oliphant, 17 June 1898

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Identifier: Coll-14/9/4/14
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Oliphant thanks Ewart for some photographs and apologises for not having replied earlier. He states he will try and send Ewart a photograph of a horse and keep him informed of whether the zebra, which he has cross-bred with a horse, is likely to foal.

Dates: 17 June 1898
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Letter to James Cossar Ewart from Colonel George A. Oliphant, 19 August 1898

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Identifier: Coll-14/9/4/18
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Oliphant announces the birth of a chestnut foal at Woburn Abbey: the product of a zebra mare and an Arabian sire horse, and with stripes and dappling on its legs, thighs and body.

Dates: 19 August 1898
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Letter to James Cossar Ewart from E. Bryans, 20 November 1899

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Identifier: Coll-14/9/5/37
Scope and Contents

Bryans writes regarding Ewart's article 'Zebras, Horses and Hybrids' which has prompted him to mention a supposed case of telegony between two dogs.

Dates: 20 November 1899
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

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Names
Ewart, James Cossar, 1851-1933 (zoologist and professor of natural history, University of Edinburgh) 3
Ridgeway, Sir William, 1853-1926 (classicist and Disney professor of archaeology, University of Cambridge (England)) 3
Bateson, William, 1861-1926 (English biologist and professor of genetics, University of Cambridge) 2
Blunt, Wilfred Scawen, 1840-1922 (traveller, politician, and poet) 2
Bryans, E, fl1899 2
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Hayes, Matthew Horace, 1842-1904 (veterinarian and author on horses) 2
Oliphant, George A., Colonel, fl 1898-1910 (employee on Woburn estate, Bedfordshire (England)) 2
Osborn, Henry Fairfield, 1857-1935 (curator, American Museum of Natural History, New York) 2
Reid, Charles, 1837-1929 (Scottish photographer) 2
Allen, Clement Francis Romilly, c.1844-1920 (author) 1
American Museum of Natural History (1869-:) 1
Balfour, Alice Blanche, 1850-1936 (sister of 1st Earl of Balfour) 1
Beresford, Marcus, Lord, 1848-1922 (equerry and racing manager) 1
Board of Agriculture and Fisheries (1903-1919) 1
British Museum (Natural History) (1881-1991) 1
Capitan, Louis, 1854-1929 (French doctor and historian) 1
Columbia University (1754-:) 1
Dawson, Charles, 1864?1916 (palaeontologist and antiquary) 1
Ewart, George Arthur, 1886-1942 (surgeon) 1
Falz-Fein, Frederic von, Baron, fl1903 (Russian animal breeder) 1
Foreign and Commonwealth Office. Foreign Office (1782-) 1
Giard, Alfred Mathieu, 1846-1908 (French zoologist and director of the Faculte des Sciences, Sorbonne) 1
Guerne, Jules De, 1855-1931 (naturalist) 1
Hagenbeck, Carl, 1844-1913 (German animal dealer and trainer) 1
Hayward, A., fl 1913 1
Hill, Sir Clement Lloyd, 1845-1913 (superintendent of African protectorates, Foreign Office) 1
Parana, Baron De, fl1899 1
Peacock, 1856-1920 (author) 1
Rowland Ward Ltd (1872-) 1
Royal Highland and Agricultural Society of Scotland (1784-:) 1
Royal Society of Arts (1754-:) 1
Russell, Herbrand Arthur, 11th Duke of Bedford, 1858-1940 1
Salensky, Wladimir, fl1902 (Russian biologist) 1
Sanson, M., fl 1904 (zoologist) 1
Sclater, Philip Lutley, 1829-1913 (editor and president of the Zoological Society of London) 1
Société Nationale D'Acclimatation de France (1854-:) (scientific society) 1
Watson, Andrew Swan, c.1863-1930 (photographer) 1
Woburn Abbey 1
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