Skull
Found in 59 Collections and/or Records:
Letter to James Cossar Ewart from James Wilson, 09 November 1910
Wilson describes the photographs taken of the skulls in the Museum of the Royal College of Science, Dublin in order to compare flat and projecting polls. He suspects the projecting polls were more popular in the past but that breeders prefer flat polls now.
Letter to James Cossar Ewart from John Guy Dollman, 06 January 1929
Dollman writes that he will send on the photographs Ewart requires as soon as possible. The photographer at the Natural History Museum has already sent photographs of the skull of Ovis sairensis. Dollman provides the measurements of the horns on the specimen.
The reverse of the page contains Ewart's handwritten notes concerning prehistoric settlements.
Letter to James Cossar Ewart from J.U. Duerst, 14 February 1909
Duerst acknowledges receipt of Ewart's paper 'On skulls of horses from the Roman fort at Newstead' and states that he will send Ewart a copy of his own treatise on the animal remains from Anau when he has received it. He proposes that the desert horse from Anau must be the first domestic horse, or else the first desert or oriental horse.
Letter to James Cossar Ewart from Kathleen Haddon, 16 September 1912
Haddon writes that she has arrived back in Cambridge to find Ewart's case of Roman dog skulls at the Zoological Laboratory, Cambridge. She asks their probable age and where they came from.
Letter to James Cossar Ewart from Lord Marcus Beresford, 30 October 1909
Beresford gives Ewart permission to measure the skull of 'Persimmon', which he says he can pass on to Rowland Ward. He remarks that ''Persimmon' was one of the best horses that ever lived, whether he was descended from a zebra or a Himalayan donkey'.
Letter to James Cossar Ewart from Philip J. White, 21 November 1910
White thanks Ewart for his support of his application for the Examiner to the Secretary of the Court. He reports that University College of North Wales, Bangor, has two skulls of Bos indicus and the premaxillas do not meet the nasals. He adds that is going to get the skulls photographed.
Letter to James Cossar Ewart from Robert E. Holding, 24 February 1904
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.
Letter to James Cossar Ewart from Roman Prawochenski, 14 April 1927
Prawochenski thanks Ewart for the information concerning the types of sheep skulls. He confirms that Ewart's paper on Polish wool, which he delivered at the 1925 International Congress of Agriculture, is nearly printed. His colleague Kaczkowski is finding Ewart's study of the embryological development of sheep valuable for his own work.
Letter to James Cossar Ewart from S.H Chubb, 27 January 1913
Chubb writes that he is now able to supply a negative and measurements of the Shetland pony. He judges the growth of the pony's skull to be abnormally underdeveloped, and wonders if Ewart can supply the date of the pony's birth.
Letter to James Cossar Ewart from Sir Arthur Keith, 18 November 1910
Keith writes from the Royal College of Surgeons of England and provides sketches of three zebra skulls.