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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 Matthew Horace Hayes, 14 July 1902

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Identifier: Coll-14/9/8/57
Scope and Contents

Hayes provides information about the twice winner of the Grand National, 'Manifesto'. He adds that he does not consider any of the photographs Ewart had enclosed sharp enough for reproduction.

Dates: 14 July 1902
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of James Cossar Ewart / Correspondence / Correspondence 1902

Letter to James Cossar Ewart from Matthew Horace Hayes, 21 February 1904

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Identifier: Coll-14/9/10/17
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Hayes writes that he has sent 'Master Arthur' a postcard about acquiring backing pads. He writes that he has obtained the head of a horse which was over 44 years of age and offers Ewart photographs of his teeth.

Dates: 21 February 1904
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of James Cossar Ewart / Correspondence / Correspondence 1904

Letter to James Cossar Ewart from Osgood H. Mackenzie, 22 January 1903

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Identifier: Coll-14/9/9/6
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MacKenzie thanks Ewart for sending him some pamphlets. He gives details about a three year old cream-coloured pony in his local district and about a horse of his own.

Dates: 22 January 1903
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of James Cossar Ewart / Correspondence / Correspondence 1903

Letter to James Cossar Ewart from Philip Lutley Sclater, 15 March 1902

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Identifier: Coll-14/9/8/20
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Sclater enquires whether Ewart would like to give a lecture on the subject of horses and zebras in either April or May. The Zoological Society of London would like to draw attention to their collections of these animals.

Dates: 15 March 1902
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of James Cossar Ewart / Correspondence / Correspondence 1902

Letter to James Cossar Ewart from Professor J.U Duerst, 20 July 1908

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Identifier: Coll-14/9/14/20
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Duerst writes that he would like to read all of Ewart's works as they are both researching similar subjects concerning the horse. He describes his work on the subspecies Equus caballus nehringi and Equus caballus Pumpellii and states that he is sending Ewart all of his own papers and requests that Ewart do the same.

Dates: 20 July 1908
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of James Cossar Ewart / Correspondence / Correspondence 1908

Letter to James Cossar Ewart from Professor Sir John Halliday Croom, 20 December 1915

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Identifier: Coll-14/9/21/21
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Croom thanks Ewart for a copy of his most recent work on the development of the horse and expresses his interest in it.

Dates: 20 December 1915
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of James Cossar Ewart / Correspondence / Correspondence 1915

Letter to James Cossar Ewart from R.A Everett and Co., 02 December 1902

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Identifier: Coll-14/9/8/103
Scope and Contents

The letter expresses Everett and Co's interest in publishing a book on the horse by Ewart.

Dates: 02 December 1902
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of James Cossar Ewart / Correspondence / Correspondence 1902

Letter to James Cossar Ewart from Richard Francis Scharff, 12 March 1909

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Identifier: Coll-14/9/15/6
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Scharff provides notes relating to the measurements of the metacarpals and metatarsels from the centre of the provincial articular surface to the dorsal ridge of various prehistoric horses that have been uncovered in excavations.

Dates: 12 March 1909
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of James Cossar Ewart / Correspondence / Correspondence 1909

Letter to James Cossar Ewart from Richard Francis Scharff, 16 March 1909

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Identifier: Coll-14/9/15/8
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Scharff thanks Ewart for giving him his views on the metacarpals and provides some more measurements of various prehistoric horses that that have been uncovered in excavations.

Dates: 16 March 1909
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of James Cossar Ewart / Correspondence / Correspondence 1909

Letter to James Cossar Ewart from Richard Francis Scharff, 04 January 1916

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Identifier: Coll-14/9/22/4
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Scharff thanks Ewart for his paper on the Development of the Horse.

Dates: 04 January 1916
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of James Cossar Ewart / Correspondence / Correspondence 1916