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Correspondence from Leonard Horner and family, 1860-1865

 Sub-Series
Identifier: Coll-74/12/4
Scope and Contents

The Correspondence from Leonard Horner and family sub-series consists of:


  1. 22 letters, chronologically arranged (1860-1866)
Dates: 1860-1865
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Correspondence to Sir Archibald Geikie: W[illiam] G[rylls] Adams to Paul Apfelstedt, 17 November 1860 - 01 December 1900

 Sub-Series
Identifier: Coll-74/11/6
Scope and Contents

The Correspondence to Sir Archibald Geikie: W[illiam] G[rylls] Adams to Paul Apfelstedt sub-series consists of:


  1. 20 letters to Sir Archibald Geikie, alphabetically arranged (1860-1900)
Dates: 17 November 1860 - 01 December 1900
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Letter to James Cossar Ewart from Edwin Ray Lankester, 19 October 1875

 Item
Identifier: Coll-14/9/1/1
Scope and Contents

Lankester invites Ewart to visit him at the museum of Exeter College, Oxford to show him carmine staining techniques on a sturgeon skull and other fish specimens. He also suggests that Ewart should visit the college in order to initiate some of the preparations of fish specimens at the Museum. He also suggests several book titles for Ewart's studies.

Dates: 19 October 1875
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Letter to James Cossar Ewart from Heatley Noble, 30 March 1912

 Item
Identifier: Coll-14/9/18/15
Scope and Contents

Noble writes that he is expecting a visit from Elwes and that Ewart is welcome to stay too. He sees in The Field that Lydekker still believes that a certain breed of sheep are from South Africa although he has not been able to provide any proof, and that they were certainly in Britain 100 years before either of the flocks he mentions.

Dates: 30 March 1912
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Letter to James Cossar Ewart from Henry John Elwes, [c.08 September 1911]

 Item
Identifier: Coll-14/9/17/56
Scope and Contents

Elwes writes concerning his lost book. He also asks Ewart to confirm when he would be available to accommodate him on his return from Poltalloch on 16th. He remarks that he goes to Capenoch, Dumfriesshire, Saturday till Monday.

The letter is undated, although marked 'Friday', which should place it the day before Elwes' trip to Capenoch on Saturday 9th September 1911.

Dates: [c.08 September 1911]
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Letter to James Cossar Ewart from Henry John Elwes, 26 January 1922

 Item
Identifier: Coll-14/9/28/2
Scope and Contents

Elwes writes that he has enclosed a letter concerning Merino rams in Australia. He recommends the book 'Tutira, A History of New Zealand Sheep Farm' by Guthrie-Smith and confirms visiting arrangements for Ewart and his wife.

Dates: 26 January 1922
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Letter to James Cossar Ewart from J.H Munro Mackenzie, 21 May 1902

 Item
Identifier: Coll-14/9/8/38
Scope and Contents

Mackenzie writes regarding his letter to the Farming World about pony breeding. He also invites Ewart to visit him on Mull and see his cross-bred ponies.

Dates: 21 May 1902
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Letter to James Cossar Ewart from Matthew Horace Hayes, 21 August 1902

 Item
Identifier: Coll-14/9/8/67
Scope and Contents

Hayes thanks Ewart for an enjoyable visit to Penicuik. He would like to publish a book on horse breeding and would like to discuss the details with Ewart, with a view to collaborating with him.

Dates: 21 August 1902
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Letter to James Cossar Ewart from Matthew Horace Hayes, 22 December 1902

 Item
Identifier: Coll-14/9/8/120
Scope and Contents

Hayes expresses regret that Ewart's paper on callosites and the wartless pony will not be published for some time, as he had wanted to include it in his new edition of Points of the Horse. He invites Ewart to go hunting and discusses the dental arrangment of the ass, stating that the ass belongs to an older equine order than the horse.

Dates: 22 December 1902
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Letter to James Cossar Ewart from Matthew Horace Hayes, 25 October 1903

 Item
Identifier: Coll-14/9/9/112
Scope and Contents

Hayes reports that his book is progressing well. He asks Ewart's permission to visit him and break in his Przewalski's horse to prove that they are not untameable.

Dates: 25 October 1903
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

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Elwes, Henry John, 1846-1922 (traveller and botanist) 3
Hayes, Matthew Horace, 1842-1904 (veterinarian and author on horses) 3
Geikie, Archibald, Sir, 28 December 1835 – 10 November 1924 (Professor of Geology, University of Edinburgh) 2
Lydekker, Richard, 1849-1915 (palaeontologist) 2
Ridgeway, Sir William, 1853-1926 (classicist and Disney professor of archaeology, University of Cambridge (England)) 2
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Schweitzer, Albert 1875-1965, 1875-1965 (medical missionary) 2
Tovey, Sir Donald Francis, 1875-1940 (Reid Professor of Music, University of Edinburgh) 2
Agassiz, Alexander, 1835-1910 (American naturalist and industrialist) 1
Allport, Samuel, fl1870-1882 (geologist and librarian) 1
Anderson, Joseph, fl1877-1903 (antiquarian) 1
Anderson, Tempest, 1846-1913 (opthalmic surgeon, photographer and volcanologist) 1
Anderson, W, fl1890-1893 (geologist) 1
Dando, W.P, fl 1904 (official photographer to the Zoological Society, London (England)) 1
Ewart nee Muir, Edith Fairlie, 1878-1953 (third wife of James Cossar Ewart) 1
Forbes, Edward, 1815-1854 (Manx naturalist | Professor of Natural History, University of Edinburgh 1854) 1
Foss, Hubert James (music publisher and composer) 1
Grierson, Mary Gardner (pianist and conductor) 1
Guthrie-Smith, William Herbert, 1862-1940 (farmer, naturalist, writer) 1
Horner, Joanna Baillie, b 1823 (Writer) 1
Horner, Leonard, 1785-1864 (Scottish merchant, geologist and educational reformer) 1
Kaczkowski, B., fl 1926 (scientist) 1
Lankester, Edwin Ray, Sir, 1847-1929 (zoologist and professor of zoology, University College London) 1
Lyell, Katharine Murray, 1817-1915 (nee Horner) 1
Mackenzie, J.H Munro, fl1902-1908 (Scottish pony breeder) 1
Noble, Heatley, 1862-1922 (ornithologist) 1
Pocock, Reginald Innes, 1863-1947 (British zoologist) 1
Prawochenski, Roman, fl 1925 (professor of animal breeding, Agricultural Department, Jagellonian University) 1
Regent's Park (1835-:) 1
Royal Agricultural Society of England (1838-:) 1
Schweitzer, Helene (wife of Albert Schweitzer) 1
Trevelyan, Robert Calverley, 1872-1951 1
University of Oxford, Exeter College. Exeter College (1314-:) 1
Weisse, Sophie, 1852-1945 (Scottish music teacher) 1
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