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Letter to James Cossar Ewart from Sir Edwin Ray Lankester, 15 December [1913]
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Identifier: Coll-14/9/19/60
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Lankester writes that he will be glad to have Ewart's horse paper in reprint and to publish some work on the hoof.
The year is not written on the letter.
The year is not written on the letter.
Dates:
15 December [1913]
Letter to James Cossar Ewart from Sir Edwin Ray Lankester, 20 June [1905]
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Identifier: Coll-14/9/11/14
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Lankester writes that he has heard from Ewart's return from South America from Lord Arthur Cecil. He asks if he may have the paper Ewart promised him on the chestnuts of the horse being a question of gland structure, to be published in the Quarterly Journal of Microscopical Science. He is able to give Ewart space to publish the plates he showed him illustrating the later development of the horse embryo. The year is not written on the letter, but as Lankester...
Dates:
20 June [1905]
Letter to James Cossar Ewart from Sir John Gilmour, 1st Baronet of Lundin and Montrave, 17 April 1904
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Identifier: Coll-14/9/10/39
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Gilmour thanks Ewart for sending him 'The Wild Horse'. He says that he has contacted his 'old and faithful stud groom W[illia]m Blackie' to see if he can assist in procuring a suitable man for Ewart's vacant post of stud groom. He comments that 'Scotch grooms are, take them as a whole, fairly decent chaps, but they are not horsemen.'
Dates:
17 April 1904
Letter to James Cossar Ewart from Sir Peter Chalmers Mitchell, 26 March 1921
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Identifier: Coll-14/9/27/3
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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.
Dates:
26 March 1921
Letter to James Cossar Ewart from Sir Theodore Andrea Cooke, 01 February 1912
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Identifier: Coll-14/9/18/3
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Cook offers to publish Ewart's article on horse breeding in The Field and enquires whether there are any diagrams or photographs Ewart wishes to include.
Dates:
01 February 1912
Letter to James Cossar Ewart from Sir William Ridgeway, 03 December 1905
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Identifier: Coll-14/9/11/43
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Ridgeway hopes that Ewart persuaded Scharff to obtain the Achill Island pony for the National Museum. He comments on the reviews of his recently published book The Origin and Influence of the Thoroughbred Horse. He enquires after Ewart's next paper on the tarpan, and asks for any information concerning the Rhind lectures at the University of Edinburgh. He comments that he has a lot of material on the origin of jewellery which could form a book or a course of lectures....
Dates:
03 December 1905
Letter to James Cossar Ewart from Sir William Ridgeway, 02 November 1909
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Identifier: Coll-14/9/15/29
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Ridgeway writes concerning the confusion over the provenance of the Ward's zebra skin to which Ridgeway refers in a paper for the Proceedings of the Zoological Society. He asks Ewart to confirm that the skin came from the Lombori Hills, as Rowland Ward are now asking Ridgeway to settle the matter.
Dates:
02 November 1909
Letter to James Cossar Ewart from Sir William Ridgeway, 04 December 1902
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Identifier: Coll-14/9/8/107
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Ridgeway states that he is sending Ewart an abstract of his paper on the thoroughbred horse. He mentions his thoughts on the evolution of the Barb in North Africa and says how interested he was in Ewart's book The Penycuik Experiments.
Dates:
04 December 1902
Letter to James Cossar Ewart from Sir William Ridgeway, 09 December 1902
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Identifier: Coll-14/9/8/112
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Ridgeway thanks Ewart for his comments about his own thoughts on the thoroughbred horse. Ridgeway hopes to have the paper printed by January 1903. He believes the Nisaean (or Caspian) breed owed its superiority and size to the crossing of Libyan blood with Asiatic. His paper also discusses the portrayal of small-headed horses portrayed by the cavemen of France. At present, his research revolves around the Norwegian pony with a stripe on its back. He is also greatly interested in Ewart's study...
Dates:
09 December 1902
Letter to James Cossar Ewart from Sir William Ridgeway, 28 January 1903
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Identifier: Coll-14/9/9/9
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Ridgeway states that he would very much appreciate a cliche of 'Matopo' (a zebra stallion). He adds that he has some blocks of the Kilimanjaro and Somali zebra that would be of interest to Ewart in his research on the zebra. He thinks that his knowledge of the Achaen horse would be of interest to Ewart, as he believes them to be the same as both the small horses of Northern Britain in the time of Caesar, and those of the Danube area. He discusses the spread of the horse into Africa. He agrees...
Dates:
28 January 1903