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Horses

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

Found in 454 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
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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
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of James Cossar Ewart / Correspondence / Correspondence 1907

Letter to James Cossar Ewart from Colonel George A. Oliphant, 17 June 1898

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Identifier: Coll-14/9/4/14
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Oliphant thanks Ewart for some photographs and apologises for not having replied earlier. He states he will try and send Ewart a photograph of a horse and keep him informed of whether the zebra, which he has cross-bred with a horse, is likely to foal.

Dates: 17 June 1898
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of James Cossar Ewart / Correspondence / Correspondence 1898

Letter to James Cossar Ewart from Count Jean le Gonidec (in French with English translation), 03 February 1904

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Identifier: Coll-14/9/10/9
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Count le Gonidec thanks Ewart for the publications he sent him and offers some observations from the breeding of his own purebred horses in Normandy.

Dates: 03 February 1904
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of James Cossar Ewart / Correspondence / Correspondence 1904

Letter to James Cossar Ewart from Digby Wentworth Bayard Willoughby, 9th Baron Middleton, 05 March 1911

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Identifier: Coll-14/9/17/10
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Willoughby, who signs himself 'Middleton', provides details about his hunting and steeplechase horses and the differences between half-bred and throroughbred horses.

Dates: 05 March 1911
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of James Cossar Ewart / Correspondence / Correspondence 1911

Letter to James Cossar Ewart from E. Bryans, 20 November 1899

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Identifier: Coll-14/9/5/37
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Bryans writes regarding Ewart's article 'Zebras, Horses and Hybrids' which has prompted him to mention a supposed case of telegony between two dogs.

Dates: 20 November 1899
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of James Cossar Ewart / Correspondence / Correspondence 1899

Letter to James Cossar Ewart from E. H. Leach, 24 January 1916

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Identifier: Coll-14/9/22/15
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Leach thanks Ewart for the book on the development of the horse. He wonders why mares even after foaling do not get stinted so easily in cold weather as in mild, and why maiden mares do not come into season or get in foal until the end of March or early April and postulates that the cold retards development.

Dates: 24 January 1916
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of James Cossar Ewart / Correspondence / Correspondence 1916

Letter to James Cossar Ewart from E. Helen George Smith, 05 May 1904

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Identifier: Coll-14/9/10/46
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Smith encloses some photographs of 'Black Agnes' and 'Brenda' with a letter from a Major Fallow (enclosures not present) reporting on their progress. She supposes it takes around eighteen months to acclimatise a horse or mule to the Indian climate.

Dates: 05 May 1904
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of James Cossar Ewart / Correspondence / Correspondence 1904

Letter to James Cossar Ewart from Edward Allen Clemens, 21 June 1902

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Identifier: Coll-14/9/8/47
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Clemens writes regarding Cockerell's arrangement to supply Ewart with some dun-coloured horses. Clemens is now ready to supply Ewart or Cockerell with any animal from his herds which might be useful for experimental purposes; he would also be happy to supply Ewart with skulls or other anatomical parts for analysis.

Dates: 21 June 1902
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of James Cossar Ewart / Correspondence / Correspondence 1902

Letter to James Cossar Ewart from Edwin Ray Lankester, 30 April [1907]

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Identifier: Coll-14/9/13/12
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Lankester writes that the box of Roman horse bones has arrived and asks Ewart to confirm what dates he will be giving his twelve Swiney lectures.

The year is not written on the letter.

Dates: 30 April [1907]
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of James Cossar Ewart / Correspondence / Correspondence 1907

Letter to James Cossar Ewart from Edwin Ray Lankester, 12 February 1907

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Identifier: Coll-14/9/13/2
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Lankester writes that he would like to have the Sarawak horse's skull for the British Museum, as well as some Roman horses. He asks Ewart if he would give the Swiney lectures on 'the history and palaeontology of horses' or 'horses of the past and present', as Scharff has postponed giving them until the following year. Lankester states that he believes the preorbital depression in the modern horse's skull once held a gland.

Dates: 12 February 1907
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of James Cossar Ewart / Correspondence / Correspondence 1907