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Horse Breeds

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

Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:

Letter to James Cossar Ewart from Henry Fairfield Osborn, 24 October 1916

 Item
Identifier: Coll-14/9/22/31
Scope and Contents Osborn reports the safe arrival of the Equus caballus and Equus caballus celticus. He feels strongly that the Museum should have Ewart's original type specimen of Equus caballus celticus because it agrees more closely with his original characterisation of the species in the small size of the head. He asks whether it would be practical to have the skin removed and the skeleton sent to them, as the specimen Ewart...
Dates: 24 October 1916

Restoration of the Four-Toed Horse, 1870s-1930s

 Item
Identifier: Coll-1434/3116
Scope and Contents

Photograph of a watercolour painting by C R Knight of a restoration of the four-toed horse based on a skeleton sixteen inches high in the American Museum of Natural History in [New York] in the early 20th century.

Dates: 1870s-1930s