Specimens
Found in 25 Collections and/or Records:
Letter to Edith F. Ewart from Albert Sherbourne Le Souef, 12 November 1926
Le Souef acknowledges safe receipt of the cloth. He writes that he has enjoyed his shooting trip and is reluctant to leave, but he will be sailing for France shortly. The Wild Animals of Australasia has just come out and he hopes it will prove useful to zoologists. He is organising a long trip through North Australia where he hopes to collect many new specimens of animals before they are wiped out.
Letter to James Cossar Ewart from Albert Sherbourne Le Souef, 04 October 1926
Letter to James Cossar Ewart from Arthur Dendy, 04 May 1922
Dendy writes that he has found two embryo specimens which he is sending to Ewart, and he can also send him pieces of adult skin preserved in spirit if he wishes.
Letter to James Cossar Ewart from Dr George H. Masson, 01 March 1900
Masson, a former student of Ewart's, enquires whether Ewart would like him to send some specimens of Peripatus worm, though he is concerned that they might perish in the post due to their delicate nature. He also asks the best process with which to preserve them.
Letter to James Cossar Ewart from Edwin Ray Lankester, 19 October 1875
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.
Letter to James Cossar Ewart from George H. Masson, 24 April 1900
Masson writes regarding the specimens of Peripatus worms that he has now sent to Ewart. They were chloroformed and then preserved in a solution of formalin. Masson thanks Ewart for his enquiries about his practice, and states he will gladly send some more specimens to him if he wishes.
Letter to James Cossar Ewart from Henry Fairfield Osborn, 24 October 1916
Letter to James Cossar Ewart from Henry Fairfield Osborn, 02 February 1921
Letter to James Cossar Ewart from Henry John Elwes, 17 May 1911
Elwes recommends that Ewart write to the Jardins des Plantes for the carcass of one of the chabin (a goat/sheep hybrid) to ascertain whether or not it is a hybrid, and that someone should inspect and sketch their sheep specimens before they decay much further. He has heard of the existence of a black-faced heath sheep with long curved horns still existing in North Holland which could be related to the old Norfolk sheep.
Letter to James Cossar Ewart from J. Sidney Turner, 20 March 1900
Turner writes that he is enclosing some photographs obtained from Count Le Couteulx de Canteleu and mentioning, amongst other things, an illustration that he has done of a supposed stuffed specimen of a fox-bay hybrid now in the possession of the former Chairman of the Kennel Club, Mr Shirley.