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Taxidermy

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

Found in 15 Collections and/or Records:

Letter to James Cossar Ewart from Richard Francis Scharff, 24 November 1902

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Identifier: Coll-14/9/8/95
Scope and Contents

Scharff writes regarding his opinion on the phalanx belonging to a small horse. He also accepts Ewart's offer of a stuffed Przewalski's horse for the Museum.

Dates: 24 November 1902

Letter to James Cossar Ewart from Robert E. Holding, 24 February 1904

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Identifier: Coll-14/9/10/19
Scope and Contents

Holding thanks Ewart for the tickets for 'Zoo' and says he will send him a photograph of an old St Kilda sheep as well as a photograph of a stuffed head which was eventually purchased from him by J.G Millais. He offers Ewart an exchange of a St Kilda ewe's skull for a pair of Roebuck horns.

Dates: 24 February 1904

Letter to James Cossar Ewart from Sir John Gilmour, 1st Baronet of Lundin and Montrave, 14 July 1907

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Identifier: Coll-14/9/13/30
Scope and Contents

Gilmour offers £5 or £10 to assist with the pony for the British Museum and asks whether the specimen will be killed at once.

Dates: 14 July 1907

Letter to James Cossar Ewart from Sir William Ridgeway, 02 November 1909

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Identifier: Coll-14/9/15/29
Scope and Contents

Ridgeway writes concerning the confusion over the provenance of the Ward's zebra skin to which Ridgeway refers in a paper for the Proceedings of the Zoological Society. He asks Ewart to confirm that the skin came from the Lombori Hills, as Rowland Ward are now asking Ridgeway to settle the matter.

Dates: 02 November 1909

Letter to James Cossar Ewart on behalf of Rowland Ward Ltd, taxidemists, 14 August 1900

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Identifier: Coll-14/9/6/23
Scope and Contents

The letter writer informs Ewart that Rowland Ward Ltd has sent him the feet of a zebra which he thinks might be of particular interest as they are from the region of Lake [Hevern].

Dates: 14 August 1900