Correspondence 1915, 1915
Series
Identifier: Coll-14/9/21
Scope and Contents
The series chiefly contains correspondence with Claud Alexander and Henry John Elwes about sheep and pony breeding. Other key items of correspondence include: Sir Edward Albert Sharpey Schafer concerning the need for a decision regarding a scientific director for the proposed new animal breeding research station; William Abbott Herdman regarding his work on some of the findings of H.M.S Challenger; Charles Dawson regarding a horse skull and refererring to the skull fragments of Eoanthropus dawnsoni ('the Piltdown Man') and Sir William Turner responding to the news of the death of Arthur Dukinfield Darbishire, Lecturer in Genetics at the University of Edinburgh.
Dates
- 1915
Language of Materials
English
Physical Description
1 folder
Conditions Governing Access
Open.
Extent
From the Series: 4 boxes
Physical Location
CLX-A-1138
Physical Description
1 folder
Creator
- From the Fonds: Ewart, James Cossar, 1851-1933 (zoologist and professor of natural history, University of Edinburgh) (Person)
Repository Details
Part of the University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections Repository
Contact:
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Centre for Research Collections
University of Edinburgh Main Library
George Square
Edinburgh EH8 9LJ Scotland
+44(0)131 650 8379
is-crc@ed.ac.uk