Horse Breeds
Found in 65 Collections and/or Records:
Letter to James Cossar Ewart from Sir William Ridgeway, 28 April 1903
Letter to James Cossar Ewart from Sir William Ridgeway, 13 June 1903
Ridgeway tells Ewart of a book Les Races Chevalines by Simonov and Moeder which deals especially with Russian breeds of horses. He also reports that his hybrids of Muscovy and Aylesbury ducks have proved sterile.
Letter to James Cossar Ewart from Sir William Ridgeway, 31 May 1904
Ridgeway thanks Ewart for the critique of his manuscript and offers some opinions concerning the history and characteristics of the pony Tarpan redivivus and elaborates on prehistoric horses. He makes some remarks about editorial and spelling matters and discusses the sounds made by the Kiang and Onager ponies.
Letter to James Cossar Ewart from Sir William Ridgeway, 04 June 1905
Letter to James Cossar Ewart from Sydney Olivier with enclosed copied letter from W. Reid to Captain Spanton, 02 May 1916
Letter to James Cossar Ewart from Theodore Dru Alison Cockerell, 12 March 1902
Cockerell states that he finds Chapman's zebra a very good species to use for the process of measuring skulls. He details at length the various measurements of skulls from the different Equus species, and encloses remarks made by James W. Gidley on this subject.
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.
Letter to James Cossar Ewart from Thomas Dykes, 02 March 1904
Dykes offers his opinions on what horses are best to cross with, choosing the modern Hackney and an Arab Highland cross. He says he will inform Ewart about the white maned mare which belongs to a carting contractor whose stables are in Portobello.
There is also a copy, in Dykes' hand, of the programme for the Highland and Agricultural Society, Inverness Show, 1839 and a copy of a letter to Dykes on behalf of Lord Lovat about a pony stallion 'Alan Kingsburgh'.
Letter to James Cossar Ewart from Wilfrid Scawen Blunt, 03 October 1903
Blunt reassures Ewart that he has not lost interest in his experiments and discoveries. He believes that the four varieties of horse distinguished by differences in their callosites is very important. He is pleased the grey arab given as a filly, has proved useful to Ewart and states that he will be unable to supply a friend of Ewart's with a bay Arabian mare due to the great demand for Arabian horses in the colonies.
Letter to James Cossar Ewart from William Laidlaw, 26 October 1900
Laidlaw suggests why the Shire and Clydesdale horses have so many white markings. They may breed with cattle whilst the mares are in season. He states that not so many white markings in the cart horse are found in the West and North of Scotland and details further examples of cases of unusual markings on different varieties of horse.