Societies and Clubs
Found in 187 Collections and/or Records:
Letter to James Cossar Ewart from Robert Somerville, 16 July 1927
Somerville enquires as to whether Ewart would be willing to give a lecture on the occasion of the semi-jubilee of the Dunfermline Naturalists' Society.
Letter to James Cossar Ewart from Roman Prawochenski, 18 June 1926
Prawochenski thanks Ewart for his help and apologises for any trouble has has given him. He would be honoured to be included in the Royal Society of Edinburgh Proceedings along with his colleague Kaczkowski. He will be in London shortly to purchase some horses at the Royal Agricultural Society show and hopes perhaps to meet Ewart there.
Letter to James Cossar Ewart from Samuel Boase, 19 September 1899
Boase congratulates Ewart on the work documented in the Penycuik Experiments. He goes on to discuss the importance of inbreeding in organic evolution in the animal world. He encloses a paper he wrote on inbreeding, which he presented to the Torquay Natural History Society in 1895.
Letter to James Cossar Ewart from Samuel Henry Butcher, 28 July 1908
Butcher asks Ewart to remind him who a certain Melville Foster is, who introduced himself to him recently. He invites Ewart and his wife to visit him when he is in Dublin for the British Association meeting, and asks the whereabouts of Ewart's daughter Jessie.
Letter to James Cossar Ewart from Sir Claud Alexander, 28 January 1911
Alexander writes that he hopes to see Ewart at the Zoological Society's meeting in February where they can discuss arrangements for Alexander taking the mare.
Letter to James Cossar Ewart from Sir Claud Alexander, 01 June 1912
Alexander thanks Ewart for sending him the pony, and asks his age. He also requests Elwes' address to thank him for sending him one of his papers on sheep. He asks if he thinks Lord Arthur Cecil would join the 'Menagerie Club', as they hope to be able to put on a show and exhibit some hybrids the following year.
Letter to James Cossar Ewart from Sir Clement Lloyd Hill, 15 May 1903
Hill writes to confirm that the Foreign Office have got the mare zebra from the zoo. He says he will send a report to Ewart if it is not printed by the Society of Arts and enquires whether Ewart has heard anything more about the dwarf ponies.
Letter to James Cossar Ewart from Sir Peter Chalmers Mitchell, 15 May 1903
Mitchell informs Ewart that the Council of the Zoological Society of London have granted Sir Clement Hill's request of a loan of a a zebra mare for a hybridisation experiment in the Orange River Colony. He informs Ewart that the mare is now at his disposal.
Letter to James Cossar Ewart from Sir Peter Chalmers Mitchell, 26 March 1921
Mitchell writes concerning the fact that Gadow's paper concerning feathers has been accepted for publication by the Publication Committee of the Zoological Society of London despite the paper not having a satisfactory conclusion.
Letter to James Cossar Ewart from Sir William Ridgeway, 06 October 1903
Ridgeway asks if there is a chance of seeing Ewart in Cambridge before his University session begins in October. He reports that his book has gone to press and that he has incorporated the results of Ewart's experiments with the Kiang horse. He reports on his visit to Southport for a British Association for the Advancement of Science meeting.