Species
Found in 22 Collections and/or Records:
Letter to James Cossar Ewart from F.H.A Marshall, 15 November 1910
Marshall reports that Hughes says the species is probably Bos fromtosus (of Scandinavian palaeontologists) which have a projecting mesial process. He commiserates with Ewart about the Carnegie Trust and states that it is surely time for the Scottish Universities were encouraged to adopt a more liberal policy towards the advancement of learning.
Letter to James Cossar Ewart from F.M Perry, 02 August 1909
Perry asks Ewart which species of zebra he considers to be the largest and most attractive, how Ewart's specimens have adapted to the Scottish climate and whether their temperament precludes complete domestication.
Letter to James Cossar Ewart from Fred J. Baillie, 08 October [1904]
Baillie writes that he is sending Ewart the zebra skins and compares what appear to be two different species from different localities. He will send Ewart the measurements later and offers to send him the head of a zebra he shot in Nakuru.
The year does not appear on the letter .
Letter to James Cossar Ewart from Henry Fairfield Osborn, 13 June 1902
Osborn states that the pony has arrived safely in New York. He will have the animal photographed for Ewart soon. He mentions not having read the papers by Mendel and Bateson. He announces that he will be writing to the Duke of Bedford to say that he would be interested in receiving the skeleton of one of his Russian horses if one should die. He also states that James Gidley is revising the species of their miocene, and he criticises Othniel Charles Marsh's phylogeny.
Letter to James Cossar Ewart from Henry Fairfield Osborn, 24 October 1916
Letter to James Cossar Ewart from Henry Fairfield Osborn, 05 January 1918
Osborn writes that he will shortly send Ewart a revision of the Equidae, which he calls 'a dry, exhausting piece of work, which is, however, absolutely essential for the more interesting monograph which I trust will follow one day.' He reports that the Celtic pony is now in full coat and is not typical. As it lacks many of the specific characters on which Ewart established the subspecies, he requests again the skeleton and skin of the type.
Letter to James Cossar Ewart from John Alexander Harvie-Brown, with enclosed photograph, 01 July 1903
Harvie-Brown returns the photograph of the goose which Ewart has sent him, and says he takes it to be a cross between a Canadian and a Greylag goose, and gives details of the two species.
Letter to James Cossar Ewart from Sir William Ridgeway, 29 August 1904
Ridgeway states that it is most probable that the Libyan horse in a wild state had more strongly defined stripes than when domesticated and refers to Azara's example of wild and tame cattle in South America differing in colours. He writes that if Ewart agrees he will insert this into the revised last chapter of his book. He has heard that Pocock is going to publish the bay quagga as a new variety or species and asks Ewart to send him an illustrative block of the Hebridean stallion.
Letter to James Cossar Ewart from Sir William Ridgeway, 04 June 1905
Letter to James Cossar Ewart from Theodore Dru Alison Cockerell, 25 April 1902
Cockerell writes regarding the notes that he had sent about Equus scotti, and the apparent differences between this species and Equus caballus, an opinion he has now had to alter in the light of information supplied by James Gidley. Cockerell doubts whether the bones of any species of horse would indicate from which hemisphere it originated.