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Skeletons

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

Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:

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

 Item
Identifier: Coll-14/9/13/44
Scope and Contents

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
Scope and Contents

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, 16 April [1907]

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Identifier: Coll-14/9/13/10
Scope and Contents

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]