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Callosites

 Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Scope Note: Created For = NAHSTE,Use For = Chestnuts, warts, growths

Found in 25 Collections and/or Records:

Letter to James Cossar Ewart from William Gray Hogarth, 03 December 1902

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Identifier: Coll-14/9/8/104
Scope and Contents

Hogarth informs Ewart, following a reference to Ewart's paper given at the Royal Society on the Celtic horse, of a full-sized horse in his possession which does not have any callosites, revealing that this is a phenomenon not solely limited to ponies.

Dates: 03 December 1902
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of James Cossar Ewart / Correspondence / Correspondence 1902

Letter to James Cossar Ewart from William Mungall, 22 September 1909

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Identifier: Coll-14/9/15/24
Scope and Contents

Mungall writes regarding the filly foal born in 1908 to the yellow dun Shetland mare 'Helen II' and says that due to the distance he cannot say whether the foal has chestnuts (callosities) or ergots. However, the second foal born to the mare does have chestnuts.

Dates: 22 September 1909
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of James Cossar Ewart / Correspondence / Correspondence 1909

Letter to James Cossar Ewart from William Mungall, 06 October 1909

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Identifier: Coll-14/9/15/25
Scope and Contents

Mungall writes that he can now confirm that the foal born in 1908 to 'Helen II' does have chestnuts and ergots, more pronounced than the foal born in 1909.

Dates: 06 October 1909
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of James Cossar Ewart / Correspondence / Correspondence 1909

Letter to James Cossar Ewart from William Ridgeway, 06 March 1904

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Identifier: Coll-14/9/10/27
Scope and Contents Ridgeway offers his opinions on Ewart's 'excellent paper'. He states that he is sceptical as to the accuracy of cave drawings of horses, but is glad that Ewart expresses doubts as to the domestication of the horse. He recommends that Ewart provide explicitly the evidence of orseus remains from La Monthe, and is unsure about the claim that there are two different stocks in Arabian horses. He enquires as to the relative sizes of the ergots (growths) in Ewart's Mongolian pony and Przewalski's...
Dates: 06 March 1904
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of James Cossar Ewart / Correspondence / Correspondence 1904

Letter to James Cossar Ewart from William Ridgeway, 20 April 1904

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Identifier: Coll-14/9/10/40
Scope and Contents

Ridgeway reports that he has been in Ireland examining the other objects found along with the three horse skulls in the 'crannog discovery'. He writes that he and Coffey have dated them between the eighth and tenth centuries. He mentions a letter from Walter Harris concerning his enquiries about callosities on the legs of horses in Tangier.

Dates: 20 April 1904
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of James Cossar Ewart / Correspondence / Correspondence 1904

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