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Found in 64 Collections and/or Records:

Letter to James Cossar Ewart from Carl Hagenbeck, 05 December 1902

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Identifier: Coll-14/9/8/109
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Hagenbeck writes hoping that the three hybrids arrive safely in Hamburg. He also announces that he is happy with the amount offered to him for the young Przewalski's horse skin and skeleton, which Ewart is procuring for a friend. He will shortly send Ewart the skins of a Siberian Ibex for his museum. He states that he has not yet seen Salensky's monograph about the Przewalski's horse but will enquire about it.

Dates: 05 December 1902

Letter to James Cossar Ewart from Charles Edward Fagan, 05 March 1907

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Identifier: Coll-14/9/13/5
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Fagan informs Ewart that the Trustees of the British Museum have appointed Ewart Lecturer on the Swiney Foundation for that year and approve his subject 'Horses of the Past and Present'. He asks Ewart for information on when he will come to London and for him to submit a syllabus.

Dates: 05 March 1907

Letter to James Cossar Ewart from Colonel George A, Oliphant, 24 October 1907

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Identifier: Coll-14/9/13/44
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Oliphant writes that the Przewalski's horse skeleton in the British Museum is of a white-nosed mare that Ewart had measured when she was alive. He notes that they have only two of the brown nosed variety at Woburn, although he has not noticed any differences in bone between the two varieties.

Dates: 24 October 1907

Letter to James Cossar Ewart from Colonel George A. Oliphant, 31 October 1907

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Identifier: Coll-14/9/13/46
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Oliphant confirms that of the two horse carcases sent to Gerrard, the young male will be the skeleton in the British Museum.

Dates: 31 October 1907

Letter to James Cossar Ewart from Edwin Ray Lankester, 19 October 1875

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Identifier: Coll-14/9/1/1
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Lankester invites Ewart to visit him at the museum of Exeter College, Oxford to show him carmine staining techniques on a sturgeon skull and other fish specimens. He also suggests that Ewart should visit the college in order to initiate some of the preparations of fish specimens at the Museum. He also suggests several book titles for Ewart's studies.

Dates: 19 October 1875

Letter to James Cossar Ewart from Edwin Ray Lankester, 18 April 1882

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Identifier: Coll-14/9/1/12
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Lankester announces his resignation from the Chair of Natural History at the University of Edinburgh, and states that he will be staying at University College London. He gives the main reasons for his resignation as 'ten months are required in Edinburgh instead of three as I supposed, and that there are no laboratories nor a museum, nor likely to be for many years to come' and that the Executive Commission 'may reduce the value of the post to any extent.'

Dates: 18 April 1882

Letter to James Cossar Ewart from Edwin Ray Lankester, 05 February 1907

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Identifier: Coll-14/9/13/1
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Lankester writes that he will ask Mr E. Clarke at the Natural History Museum, Edinburgh, to lend him the skull of the okapi. He asks Ewart to cut out a flat piece from the skull (to be replaced afterwards) to aid him in his examination.

Dates: 05 February 1907

Letter to James Cossar Ewart from Edwin Ray Lankester, 12 February 1907

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Identifier: Coll-14/9/13/2
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Lankester writes that he would like to have the Sarawak horse's skull for the British Museum, as well as some Roman horses. He asks Ewart if he would give the Swiney lectures on 'the history and palaeontology of horses' or 'horses of the past and present', as Scharff has postponed giving them until the following year. Lankester states that he believes the preorbital depression in the modern horse's skull once held a gland.

Dates: 12 February 1907

Letter to James Cossar Ewart from Edwin Ray Lankester, 16 April [1907]

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Identifier: Coll-14/9/13/10
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Lankester thanks Ewart for the proof of his 'horse paper' and reports that he is setting up a complete skeleton of a Przewalski's horse from Woburn. He asks Ewart to tell Mr Linton to send the Roman horse to him at the British Museum.

The year is not written on the letter.

Dates: 16 April [1907]

Letter to James Cossar Ewart from E.W Morse, 19 December 1911

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Identifier: Coll-14/9/17/81
Scope and Contents Morse writes that the report containing Ewart's lectures will be ready shortly, and he wishes to know how many separates of Ewart's article he would like to have for distribution. He will be unable to do anything concerning the distribution of breeds in India so he hopes Ewart will, and also that Ewart will make a large collection of skulls from India in adult and embryonic forms. Ewart would also need someone in India to measure all the breeds, and to have a uniform system of measuring. He...
Dates: 19 December 1911