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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 Walter Heape, 23 December 1915

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Identifier: Coll-14/9/21/27
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Heape thanks Ewart for his paper on the Development of the Horse, which he considers an interesting contribution to embryological work.

Dates: 23 December 1915
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of James Cossar Ewart / Correspondence / Correspondence 1915

Letter to James Cossar Ewart from Walter Heape, 14 October 1910

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Identifier: Coll-14/9/16/20
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Heape writes that he is looking forward to learning of Ewart's conclusions on the ancestor of the coarse-legged horse, which he guesses to have been a wetland horse, and compliments Ewart on his horse handling ability.

Dates: 14 October 1910
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of James Cossar Ewart / Correspondence / Correspondence 1910

Letter to James Cossar Ewart from Walter Southwood, 01 March 1907

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Identifier: Coll-14/9/13/4
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Southwood writes concerning The Horses of the British Empire that he will allow the description of the figures occupying part or whole of the page opposite the plate and invites Ewart to submit the further copy that he has suggested.

Dates: 01 March 1907
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of James Cossar Ewart / Correspondence / Correspondence 1907

Letter to James Cossar Ewart from W.D Gilpin Brown, 04 April 1894

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Identifier: Coll-14/9/2/3
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Brown replies to Ewart's earlier request for details about the breeding background of a horse called 'Hermit'.

Dates: 04 April 1894
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of James Cossar Ewart / Correspondence / Correspondence 1893-1896

Letter to James Cossar Ewart from Wilfrid Scawen Blunt, 02 September 1898

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Identifier: Coll-14/9/4/22
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Blunt replies to Ewart's acceptance of the gift of a filly. He encloses details of the filly's breeding. He also enquires in what published work he could find details of the fossil of the horse as originally traced by Huxley and Marsh, as he is hoping to begin a genealogy of the Arabian horse.

Dates: 02 September 1898
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of James Cossar Ewart / Correspondence / Correspondence 1898

Letter to James Cossar Ewart from William Allison, 16 February 1899

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Identifier: Coll-14/9/5/15
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Allison agrees with Ewart about the importance of nutrition in a horse's pregnancy, and supplies information relating to two mares from Ireland. He makes an observation regarding British thoroughbred horses and their lack of robustness due to their breeding habits, comments on various Australian thoroughbreds and reveals his experiences of fox terrier breeding.

Dates: 16 February 1899
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of James Cossar Ewart / Correspondence / Correspondence 1899

Letter to James Cossar Ewart from William Boyd Dawkins, 12 December 1910

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Identifier: Coll-14/9/16/45
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Dawkins thanks Ewart for his paper on ancient British horses and states that the horse figured by the cave-man at Cresswell agrees with those figured in the caves of France.

Dates: 12 December 1910
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of James Cossar Ewart / Correspondence / Correspondence 1910

Letter to James Cossar Ewart from William Boyd Dawkins (incomplete), 08 December 1907

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Identifier: Coll-14/9/13/47
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Dawkins writes that he is sure the Glastonbury Committee will allow Ewart to study the remains of horses among their collections of refuse bones and provides the address of the master digger. He adds that he has not received 'the Roman Skulls from Newstead.'

The latter part of the letter, including author's signature, is unclear, but the address matches that of William Boyd Dawkins.

Dates: 08 December 1907
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of James Cossar Ewart / Correspondence / Correspondence 1907

Letter to James Cossar Ewart from William Gordon, 27 September 1913

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Identifier: Coll-14/9/19/48
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Gordon hopes that the ewe and spotted lamb arrived safely in Leith. He provides details about the price his lambs fetched in Aberdeen. He writes that he is going on with the excavation of the Brough and has found some stone implements as well as the bones of horses, cattle and sheep, which he offers to send to Ewart for investigation.

Dates: 27 September 1913
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of James Cossar Ewart / Correspondence / Correspondence 1913

Letter to James Cossar Ewart from William Gray Hogarth, 12 December 1902

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Identifier: Coll-14/9/8/115
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Hogarth provides information about the physical dimensions of his horse 'Peter', which he says can travel about 40 or 50 miles a day. He says he will try to find further information about his breeding background.

Dates: 12 December 1902
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of James Cossar Ewart / Correspondence / Correspondence 1902