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Photographs

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

Found in 1938 Collections and/or Records:

Letter to James Cossar Ewart from J. Sidney Turner, 20 March 1900

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Identifier: Coll-14/9/6/8
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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.

Dates: 20 March 1900
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of James Cossar Ewart / Correspondence / Correspondence 1900

Letter to James Cossar Ewart from J. Stihl, 12 November 1901

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Identifier: Coll-14/9/7/25
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Stihl, of Switzerland, details his trip to Southern France, the Rhone and the Camargue where he saw half-wild herds of horses and cattle. He includes 21 photographs of horses and cattle from the area (not present).

Dates: 12 November 1901
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of James Cossar Ewart / Correspondence / Correspondence 1901

Letter to James Cossar Ewart from James Carmichael, 02 January 1899

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Identifier: Coll-14/9/5/1
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Carmichael writes regarding the gridiron marking on a photograph (presumably of a zebra) Ewart has sent him, and similar markings on a zebra shot by Carmichael in Magomero.

Dates: 02 January 1899
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of James Cossar Ewart / Correspondence / Correspondence 1899

Letter to James Cossar Ewart from James Wilson, 09 November 1910

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Identifier: Coll-14/9/16/31
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Wilson describes the photographs taken of the skulls in the Museum of the Royal College of Science, Dublin in order to compare flat and projecting polls. He suspects the projecting polls were more popular in the past but that breeders prefer flat polls now.

Dates: 09 November 1910
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of James Cossar Ewart / Correspondence / Correspondence 1910

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
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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