Photographs
Subject
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Found in 288 Collections and/or Records:
Letter to James Cossar Ewart from George Henderson, 30 March 1914
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Identifier: Coll-14/9/20/4
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Henderson writes that he is sending Ewart two photographs (photographs not present) of a cart used to carry Punjab sheep tails. He remarks that the tails are not as large as some of the ones he has seen.
Dates:
30 March 1914
Letter to James Cossar Ewart from George Henderson, 18 April 1914
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Identifier: Coll-14/9/20/5
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Henderson enquires whether Ewart received the photographs he sent of the Punjab large-tailed sheep. One of the carts used for carrying the sheep tails has now arrived in London, and he asks Ewart to confirm where he would like it to be sent.
Dates:
18 April 1914
Letter to James Cossar Ewart from George Teasdale-Buckell, 11 November 1899
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Identifier: Coll-14/9/5/36
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Teasdale-Buckell thanks Ewart for allowing him the use of some photographs, and gives information about the cross-breeding of two setter dogs.
Dates:
11 November 1899
Letter to James Cossar Ewart from Graham Renshaw, 04 July 1900
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Identifier: Coll-14/9/6/19
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Renshaw writes that he is sending Ewart prints of two hybrids in the Jardin des Plantes in Amsterdam. He adds that he was not able to find the quagga-hemionus hybrid for him that he had hoped to photograph.
Dates:
04 July 1900
Letter to James Cossar Ewart from Harald Faber, 23 July 1912
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Identifier: Coll-14/9/18/47
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Faber has asked Axel Appel to send Ewart some photographs of the original Danish breeds of sheep, of which there seems to be two: the heath-sheep and the Danish sheep. He mentions Appel's description of these breeds in the forthcoming agricultural dictionary Landbrugets Ordbog (Copenhagen).
Dates:
23 July 1912
Letter to James Cossar Ewart from Henry F. Osborn, 07 May 1904
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Identifier: Coll-14/9/10/48
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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
Letter to James Cossar Ewart from Henry Fairfield Osborn, 28 August 1904
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Identifier: Coll-14/9/10/92
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Osborn thanks Ewart for his visit to Penicuik and asks him for some glass slides and photographs. He recommends that when Ewart visits the British Museum again he studies the hoofs of Onohippidium as they resemble a zebra more than an ass or horse. He asks Ewart to procure him a hoof of an ass or Przewalski's horse if he is able.
Dates:
28 August 1904
Letter to James Cossar Ewart from Henry Fairfield Osborn, 16 January 1902
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Identifier: Coll-14/9/8/2
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Osborn states that he has already obtained a photograph of the Przewalski's colts and hopes that the Duke of Bedford will take some enlarged photographs showing their development, and also a watercolour painting showing the colour changes in their coats. He hopes that Ewart will put his views of the Mongolian pony down in a book. Many of the dun striped variety are to be found in Texas and Mexico. He also asks to be informed if a suitable Shetland pony comes on to the market, and would be very...
Dates:
16 January 1902
Letter to James Cossar Ewart from Henry Fairfield Osborn, 13 June 1902
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Identifier: Coll-14/9/8/44
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Osborn states that the pony has arrived safely in New York. He will have the animal photographed for Ewart soon. He mentions not having read the papers by Mendel and Bateson. He announces that he will be writing to the Duke of Bedford to say that he would be interested in receiving the skeleton of one of his Russian horses if one should die. He also states that James Gidley is revising the species of their miocene, and he criticises Othniel Charles Marsh's phylogeny.
Dates:
13 June 1902
Letter to James Cossar Ewart from Henry John Elwes, 08 April 1911
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Identifier: Coll-14/9/17/19
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Elwes suggests that he and Ewart write a joint paper on sheep. He proposes to visit and photograph each different variety of sheep if they are not mongrels. He has heard of a flock of Faroe sheep near Peterborough as well as sheep in Brittany and Iceland.
Dates:
08 April 1911