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Heredity

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

Found in 75 Collections and/or Records:

Letter to James Cossar Ewart from James Hay Caird, 25 January 1899

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Identifier: Coll-14/9/5/5
Scope and Contents

Caird states how interested he had been to read Ewart's article in The Scotsman about experimental contributions to the theory of heredity. He provides example of cross-breeding from his own horses, cows and rabbits.

Dates: 25 January 1899
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of James Cossar Ewart / Correspondence / Correspondence 1899

Letter to James Cossar Ewart from James Wilson, 28 November 1910

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Identifier: Coll-14/9/16/43
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Wilson writes that he can give no opinion on the descent of the hornless cattle from the Etruscan, but he suspects they can be traced backwards along the North of Europe. He wonders whether they were the same as cattle from Egypt, and if so, how the geographical divide happened.

Dates: 28 November 1910
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of James Cossar Ewart / Correspondence / Correspondence 1910

Letter to James Cossar Ewart from Lord Edward Frederick Lindley Wood, 16 December 1924

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Identifier: Coll-14/9/30/11
Scope and Contents Wood writes from the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries providing details of the investigations into the improvement of wool at the University of Edinburgh in collaboration with the University of Leeds, the Woollen Research Association and the University College of North Wales. One item in the programme concerns the results of introducing Merino blood into certain British hill breeds. He states that in later crossings it may be desirable to use Australian or New Zealand merinos but for...
Dates: 16 December 1924
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of James Cossar Ewart / Correspondence / Correspondence 1924

Letter to James Cossar Ewart from Will Hally (incomplete), 25 June 1910

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Identifier: Coll-14/9/16/12
Scope and Contents

Hally provides information gathered from his own experience of breeding experiments, chiefly concerning the persistence of the belief in telegony among breeders and the inheritance of colour in Dachshunds, Hackney stallions, rabbits and mice. He states that he believes that mental ability is inherited from the dam but temper from the sire, something which is not reflected in the higher consideration afforded to sires.

The second page of the letter is not present.

Dates: 25 June 1910
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of James Cossar Ewart / Correspondence / Correspondence 1910

Letter to James Cossar Ewart from William Walls, 14 May 1910

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Identifier: Coll-14/9/16/11
Scope and Contents

Walls informs Ewart that the black and tan rabbits he sent to him are inbred. He confirms that his black and tan doe had a litter by a wild buck before having another litter to a black and tan buck, and that the second litter bore no relation to the first.

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

Maternal and sex-linked effects on growth and form in the fowl, 1959

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Identifier: Coll-1362/3/182
Scope and Contents

Located in Poultry Research Centre Staff Papers 1958-61.

Dates: 1959
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Roslin Institute Offprint Collection / Poultry Research Centre

Modern methods of quantitative genetic parameter estimation, 1993

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Identifier: Coll-1362/4/229
Scope and Contents

Located in Roslin Institute Staff Papers 1993. Part 2.

Dates: 1993
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Roslin Institute Offprint Collection / Roslin Institute

Notes for 'Genetics Lectures', autumn 1948, 1948

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Identifier: Coll-1255/6/1
Scope and Contents

Contains numbered pages of handwritten notes relating to Beale's Genetics lectures, apparently for the autumn term of 1948 at the Institute of Animal Genetics. Subjects include an introduction to the chromosome theory of heredity.

Dates: 1948
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Geoffrey Beale, founder of malaria genetics and Royal Society professor / Papers relating to Beale's lectures

Notes for lectures on cytoplasmic and mitochondrial genetics, 1958-1980

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Identifier: Coll-1255/6/8
Scope and Contents

Contains notes on cytoplasmic heredity and mitochondrial genetics, along with various reading lists, for the Genetics Diploma course at the University of Edinburgh.

Dates: 1958-1980
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Geoffrey Beale, founder of malaria genetics and Royal Society professor / Papers relating to Beale's lectures

Notes relating to crossing experiments with Paramecium, 1964-1965

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Identifier: Coll-1255/5/21
Scope and Contents

Contains notes regarding crossing experiments with Paramecium. The back of the bound pages contain longhand notes on heredity, gene action, antigen variation in variety 1 of Paramecium aurelia, nuclear and cytoplasmic determinants of hereditary characters in Paramecium aurelia.

Dates: 1964-1965
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Geoffrey Beale, founder of malaria genetics and Royal Society professor / Notebooks and diaries

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