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Animal Pedigrees

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

Found in 28 Collections and/or Records:

Letter to James Cossar Ewart from Thomas Dykes, 23 November 1903

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Identifier: Coll-14/9/9/128
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Dykes writes to arrange a time to visit Ewart to take some photographs. He states that a Mr Martin of Murieston will let him have a photograph of 'Roderick' and he has written to the owner or breeder for some background on the animal's history.

Dates: 23 November 1903

Letter to James Cossar Ewart from W.D Gilpin Brown, 04 April 1894

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Identifier: Coll-14/9/2/3
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Brown replies to Ewart's earlier request for details about the breeding background of a horse called 'Hermit'.

Dates: 04 April 1894

Letter to James Cossar Ewart from Wilfrid Scawen Blunt, 02 September 1898

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Identifier: Coll-14/9/4/22
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Blunt replies to Ewart's acceptance of the gift of a filly. He encloses details of the filly's breeding. He also enquires in what published work he could find details of the fossil of the horse as originally traced by Huxley and Marsh, as he is hoping to begin a genealogy of the Arabian horse.

Dates: 02 September 1898

Letter to James Cossar Ewart from William Gray Hogarth, 12 February 1903

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Identifier: Coll-14/9/9/19
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Hogarth writes that he has traced the pedigree and ownership history of his pony 'Peter',

Dates: 12 February 1903

Letter to James Cossar Ewart from William Gray Hogarth, 12 December 1902

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Identifier: Coll-14/9/8/115
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Hogarth provides information about the physical dimensions of his horse 'Peter', which he says can travel about 40 or 50 miles a day. He says he will try to find further information about his breeding background.

Dates: 12 December 1902

Letter to William Waldegrave Palmer, 2nd Earl of Selbourne from Walter Peacock, 25 April 1916

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Identifier: Coll-14/9/22/20
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Peacock thanks Lord Selbourne for his interest in the breeding experiments with Dartmoor ponies and old Devon packhorses. He is preparing a memorandum of their current work and plans for the future which he will send to Selbourne and also to Ewart, whom Peacock wishes to consult regarding the application of Mendelian principles to the pack horse. He goes on to describe the breeding work in South Devon between a Norfolk-Roadster stallion and mares with packhorse pedigrees.

Dates: 25 April 1916

The use of pedigree and mountain-type rams [in a Welsh Mountain flock], 1958

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Identifier: Coll-1362/1/80
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Located in A.B.R.O. Reprints 1958 - 1961. Volume 2 of 19.

Dates: 1958