Letter to James Cossar Ewart from Theodore Dru Alison Cockerell, 20 March 1901
Item
Identifier: Coll-14/9/7/8
Scope and Contents
Cockerell thanks Ewart for the photographs of the Arab and Roman-nosed horses, and a paper on Connemara ponies. He describes the doubling of the sale price of horses due to British government agents buying up western ponies wholesale to ship to South Africa. He advises that, if the ponies are shipped to London on the way, Ewart might get the chance to examine and buy any horse he wanted. Following Ewart's admission that he had never heard of the Manx rabbit, Mr Cockerell explains to him that there exists a species in Western North America which resembles the ordinary 'cottontails', except that the tail is shorter. He provides data comparing the size of the tail vertebrae of each species of rabbit and suggests that these observations might be worth publishing.
Dates
- 20 March 1901
Creator
Language of Materials
English
Conditions Governing Access
Open.
Extent
1 leaf
Physical Location
CLX-A-1135
Repository Details
Part of the University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections Repository
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George Square
Edinburgh EH8 9LJ Scotland
+44(0)131 650 8379
heritagecollections@ed.ac.uk