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Horses

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

Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:

Letter to James Cossar Ewart from Colonel George A. Oliphant, 31 October 1907

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Identifier: Coll-14/9/13/46
Scope and Contents

Oliphant confirms that of the two horse carcases sent to Gerrard, the young male will be the skeleton in the British Museum.

Dates: 31 October 1907

Letter to James Cossar Ewart from Edwin Ray Lankester, 16 April [1907]

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Identifier: Coll-14/9/13/10
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Lankester thanks Ewart for the proof of his 'horse paper' and reports that he is setting up a complete skeleton of a Przewalski's horse from Woburn. He asks Ewart to tell Mr Linton to send the Roman horse to him at the British Museum.

The year is not written on the letter.

Dates: 16 April [1907]

Letter to James Cossar Ewart from Henry F. Osborn, 07 May 1904

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Identifier: Coll-14/9/10/48
Scope and Contents 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 Herbrand Arthur Russell, 11th Duke of Bedford, 14 March 1909

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Identifier: Coll-14/9/15/7
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Russell, who signs himself 'Bedford', writes that he is enclosing the cheque for £100 and that he hopes Ewart will succeed in proving that the present horse had more than one wild ancestor.

Dates: 14 March 1909