Mongolian Pony
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Scope Note: Created For = NAHSTE
Found in 16 Collections and/or Records:
Letter to James Cossar Ewart from Alfred Newton, 30 July 1903
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Identifier: Coll-14/9/9/81
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Newton thanks Ewart for sending him a copy of his paper. He responds to some of Ewart's remarks concerning zebra traits and wonders whether tame Mongolian ponies can be imported.
Dates:
30 July 1903
Letter to James Cossar Ewart from Arthur Cecil, 28 November 1903
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Identifier: Coll-14/9/9/130
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Cecil complains of an inaccurate statement made by Richard Lydekker that dun is the only pure colour showing the antiquity of the Kathiawan pony. He states that Lydekker is obviously ignorant of the existence of the Mongolian pony and that Cecil has specimens of both types in his possession.
Dates:
28 November 1903
Letter to James Cossar Ewart from Carl Hagenbeck, 19 December 1901
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Identifier: Coll-14/9/7/28
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Hagenbeck states how pleased he is in the interest that Ewart has shown in the young Przewalski's horses, which he had obtained for the Duke of Bedford from Central Asia. He says he will be shortly sending details of the horses. He is selling them for £250 each, but is prepared to let Ewart have one for £150. He has sold all his dun Mongolian mares but has one brown and one black which he is prepared to sell for £7 each. He also encloses 2 photographs of zebras which differ markedly from the...
Dates:
19 December 1901
Letter to James Cossar Ewart from Carl Hagenbeck, 26 October 1903
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Identifier: Coll-14/9/9/114
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Hagenbeck writes that Baron von Falz-Fein from Russia and the Baron de Parana both have eight to ten zebra hybrids, and agrees that if their usefulness and strength were more widely known, they would only breed zebroids rather than asses and horses. He asks for the price of Ewart's two zebra hybrids and his Shetland pony and offers his Korea stallion to him as a present, as he wishes to be rid of it. He reports that the Mongolian mares which he got as foster-mothers for the first Przewalski's...
Dates:
26 October 1903
Letter to James Cossar Ewart from Carl Hagenbeck (incomplete), 28 December 1901
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Identifier: Coll-14/9/7/30
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Hagenbeck states that the Przewalski's stallion and the Mongolian mare should be sent immediately to Leith, Edinburgh. He is concerned that lack of companionship for the Przewalski's horse may lead him to go off his food, so he suggests that Ewart send across to Hamburg a Shetland pony as companion on the journey. He provides information on the best conditions for looking after the stallion.
The latter part of the letter is not present.
The latter part of the letter is not present.
Dates:
28 December 1901
Letter to James Cossar Ewart from Colonel George A. Oliphant, 17 March 1915
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Identifier: Coll-14/9/21/4
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Oliphant, on behalf of the Duke of Bedford, offers Ewart a yearling filly by a Przewalski's stallion out of the Mongolian mare. If Ewart would not like to have the mare, perhaps the 'Edinburgh Garden' would.
Dates:
17 March 1915
Letter to James Cossar Ewart from Colonel George A. Oliphant, 16 September 1905
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Identifier: Coll-14/9/11/35
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Oliphant reports that the yellow 'mongal' mare did not produce a foal but that he hopes she is now with foal after being covered by his Przewalski's stallions. He has two Przewalski's foals now living after one was killed the previous year. He has recently acquired a Chartley bull calf from the Zoological Gardens as well as some cattle from Chartley itself.
Dates:
16 September 1905
Letter to James Cossar Ewart from Colonel George A. Oliphant, 02 June 1908
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Identifier: Coll-14/9/14/18
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Oliphant notes that Ewart requested the Przewalski's foal to be sent to the taxidermist Rowland Ward, but he trusts they will not have another mishap as there is only one foal this year. He reports that Ewart's third Przewalski's mare foaled that morning, as well as the Mongolian pony, but the offspring are all males. He asks if Ewart would consider carrying out the experiment further.
Dates:
02 June 1908
Letter to James Cossar Ewart from Colonel George A. Oliphant, 25 March 1909
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Identifier: Coll-14/9/15/10
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Oliphant writes that the Duke of Bedford wishes to know what Ewart would like to to do further with the experiments at Woburn with cross-breeding a Przewalski's horse with pony mares. He wonders if the Mongolian stallion kiang and mare would be of any use to Ewart to experiment with on the land he has recently acquired.
Dates:
25 March 1909
Letter to James Cossar Ewart from Colonel George A. Oliphant, 13 April 1909
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Identifier: Coll-14/9/15/11
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Oliphant writes that the Duke of Bedford wishes to send Ewart three Przewalski's hybrids, a Mongolian pony mare and a Przewalski's stallion and he warns Ewart that they are not tame.
Dates:
13 April 1909