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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 Richard Francis Scharff, 24 November 1902

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Identifier: Coll-14/9/8/95
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Scharff writes regarding his opinion on the phalanx belonging to a small horse. He also accepts Ewart's offer of a stuffed Przewalski's horse for the Museum.

Dates: 24 November 1902
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of James Cossar Ewart / Correspondence / Correspondence 1902

Letter to James Cossar Ewart from Sir Arthur Smith Woodward, 02 April 1917

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Identifier: Coll-14/9/23/3
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Woodward writes that he and his colleagues at the British Museum (Natural History) have examined the equine skulls and found that the shape of the occipital condyles to be variable. The approximation of the condyles in the middle line is especially marked in Hipparion, although he is unable to explain this.

Dates: 02 April 1917
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of James Cossar Ewart / Correspondence / Correspondence 1917

Letter to James Cossar Ewart from Sir Claud Alexander, 25 May 1914

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Identifier: Coll-14/9/20/8
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Alexander asks whether Ewart wishes to purchase a Mysore bull from him. He is lame but well-behaved, and Alexander would take £10 to save him from going to the butcher. He reports that his filly was hard to handle but is settling down, while her dam should foal soon although she has not wintered well and looks in poor condition. He complains that his pair of Pallas's cats are not healthy.

Dates: 25 May 1914
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of James Cossar Ewart / Correspondence / Correspondence 1914

Letter to James Cossar Ewart from Sir Claud Alexander, 11 November 1911

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Identifier: Coll-14/9/17/75
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Alexander reports that his colt is dead. He believes he has enough evidence to prove that in the matter of wool, sheep are not Mendelian, and provides details from his own breeding experiments.

Dates: 11 November 1911
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of James Cossar Ewart / Correspondence / Correspondence 1911

Letter to James Cossar Ewart from Sir Clement Lloyd Hill, 30 July 1903

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Identifier: Coll-14/9/9/80
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Hill wonders if Ewart will be able to arrange to send the horses out (to Africa) in early September and who should be sent along to accompany them. He refers Ewart to the recent appointment of a bacteriologist to the medical staff of the Foreign Office in East Africa who would be well placed to study 'the [Tsetse] fly question.'

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

Letter to James Cossar Ewart from Sir Edwin Ray Lankester, 20 June [1905]

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Identifier: Coll-14/9/11/14
Scope and Contents Lankester writes that he has heard from Ewart's return from South America from Lord Arthur Cecil. He asks if he may have the paper Ewart promised him on the chestnuts of the horse being a question of gland structure, to be published in the Quarterly Journal of Microscopical Science. He is able to give Ewart space to publish the plates he showed him illustrating the later development of the horse embryo. The year is not written on the letter, but as...
Dates: 20 June [1905]
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of James Cossar Ewart / Correspondence / Correspondence 1905

Letter to James Cossar Ewart from Sir Edwin Ray Lankester, 15 December [1913]

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Identifier: Coll-14/9/19/60
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Lankester writes that he will be glad to have Ewart's horse paper in reprint and to publish some work on the hoof.

The year is not written on the letter.

Dates: 15 December [1913]
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of James Cossar Ewart / Correspondence / Correspondence 1913

Letter to James Cossar Ewart from Sir Francis Galton, 10 February 1899

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Identifier: Coll-14/9/5/13
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Galton writes concerning the programme of compilation of data connected with the physical characteristics of the horse. Letter unsigned.

Dates: 10 February 1899
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of James Cossar Ewart / Correspondence / Correspondence 1899

Letter to James Cossar Ewart from Sir Frederick Thomas George Hobday, 03 December 1898

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Identifier: Coll-14/9/4/27
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Hobday tells Ewart of the existence of two foetuses of thoroughbreds preserved in spirit. Being aware that Ewart had made an appeal for horse specimens, Hobday recommends that Ewart contact the veterinary surgeon in Lincolnshire, where the specimens are located.

Dates: 03 December 1898
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of James Cossar Ewart / Correspondence / Correspondence 1898

Letter to James Cossar Ewart from Sir John Struthers, 21 October 1893

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Identifier: Coll-14/9/2/1
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Struthers writes regarding the presence of the Trapezium bone in the horse. He advises Ewart on the reading of older books of anatomy and gives some extracts from these.

Dates: 21 October 1893
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of James Cossar Ewart / Correspondence / Correspondence 1893-1896