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Photographs

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Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: Created For = NAHSTE

Found in 1920 Collections and/or Records:

Letter to James Cossar Ewart from John Alexander Harvie-Brown, with enclosed photograph, 01 July 1903

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

Harvie-Brown returns the photograph of the goose which Ewart has sent him, and says he takes it to be a cross between a Canadian and a Greylag goose, and gives details of the two species.

Dates: 01 July 1903
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of James Cossar Ewart / Correspondence / Correspondence 1903

Letter to James Cossar Ewart from John Guy Dollman, 06 January 1929

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Identifier: Coll-14/9/35/1
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Dollman writes that he will send on the photographs Ewart requires as soon as possible. The photographer at the Natural History Museum has already sent photographs of the skull of Ovis sairensis. Dollman provides the measurements of the horns on the specimen.

The reverse of the page contains Ewart's handwritten notes concerning prehistoric settlements.

Dates: 06 January 1929
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of James Cossar Ewart / Correspondence / Correspondence 1929

Letter to James Cossar Ewart from John Walter Gregory, 29 January 1929

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Identifier: Coll-14/9/35/3
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Gregory writes that he is interested in the photographs Ewart sent him. He imagines that hairs and scales probably arose from different types of papillae and that the hair developed between the scales and gradually replaced them as the animals required more thermal protection.

Dates: 29 January 1929
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of James Cossar Ewart / Correspondence / Correspondence 1929

Letter to James Cossar Ewart from Joseph Griffiths with enclosed photograph, 12 August 1913

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Identifier: Coll-14/9/19/39
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Griffiths writes that the letter Ewart sent to the meeting of veterinary surgeons was very useful and makes some observations regarding horse breeding.

The photograph depicts a man and a horse, labelled a Red Buck Martinet, outside some stable doors.

Dates: 12 August 1913
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of James Cossar Ewart / Correspondence / Correspondence 1913

Letter to James Cossar Ewart from Lady Estella Mary Hope, 13 January 1902

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Identifier: Coll-14/9/8/1
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Hope thanks Ewart for the photographs of the Przewalski's foals. She hopes to be able to see them when Arthur Cecil takes them to Woburn. She also mentions the Basuto pony that was sold at a Manchester auctioneer's the previous year, and belonged to a Mr Hardacre from South Africa.

Dates: 13 January 1902
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of James Cossar Ewart / Correspondence / Correspondence 1902

Letter to James Cossar Ewart from Lieutenant E.D.A Daly, 21 May 1901

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Identifier: Coll-14/9/7/13
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Daly writes regarding Ewart's recent request in the Veterinarian for notes and photographs of zebra skins. He explains that among the tame Burchell's zebras running around at Cecil Rhodes' home near Rondebosch, there is a mare with very unusual markings. He suggests photographing the animal for Ewart if he is interested.

Dates: 21 May 1901
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of James Cossar Ewart / Correspondence / Correspondence 1901

Letter to James Cossar Ewart from Lord Arthur Cecil, 05 September 1896

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Identifier: Coll-14/9/2/14
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Cecil thanks Ewart for 'the photo of Mulatto and Romulus' (Ewart's first zebra/horse hybrid and dam) and mentions that the Scottish Farmer should be sending 'Reid of Wishaw' (Charles Reid, the photographer). Cecil suggests that Reid should photograph Ewart's various animals (zebra, mule, donkey as well as Mulatto and Romulus) to highlight the differences in stripes between father and son, and the absence of stripes in the non-hybrid animals.

Dates: 05 September 1896
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of James Cossar Ewart / Correspondence / Correspondence 1893-1896

Letter to James Cossar Ewart from Lord Arthur Cecil, 23 February 1898

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Identifier: Coll-14/9/4/4
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Cecil thanks Ewart for sending photographs and his paper. He goes on to complain of losing 7 mares and 11 foals the previous year to the strongylus parasite.

Dates: 23 February 1898
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of James Cossar Ewart / Correspondence / Correspondence 1898

Letter to James Cossar Ewart from Magnus Spence, 30 March 1903

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Identifier: Coll-14/9/9/39
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Spence states that he is enclosing a photograph of a bird believed to be a cross between a goose and a swan (photograph not present). He states he will let Ewart know if it should happen to breed with a goose.

Dates: 30 March 1903
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of James Cossar Ewart / Correspondence / Correspondence 1903

Letter to James Cossar Ewart from Matthew Horace Hayes, 03 September 1902

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Identifier: Coll-14/9/8/69
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Hayes states that he is enclosing two pulls from blocks that he has made from Ewart's son's photograph of a Norwegian pony.

Dates: 03 September 1902
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of James Cossar Ewart / Correspondence / Correspondence 1902