Animals--Transportation
Found in 191 Collections and/or Records:
Letter to James Cossar Ewart from Sir Claud Alexander, 31 August 1912
Alexander writes concerning transport arrangements for the sheep he is sending to Ewart. He also offers to send him a piebald ram lamb.
Letter to James Cossar Ewart from Sir Claud Alexander, 15 July 1915
Alexander gives instructions for Ewart to return the pony to him and comments that due to the war his stock is greatly reduced. He provides details of the offspring of a piebald mare which he considers to be breeding very oddly.
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 Claud Alexander, 22 June 1914
Alexander writes concerning arrangements for transporting sheep to Ewart. He tells Ewart how many sheep will be coming and also offers him his hybrid Urial flock.
Letter to James Cossar Ewart from Sir Clement Lloyd Hill, 30 July 1903
Hill wonders if Ewart will be able to arrange to send the horses out (to Africa) in early September and who should be sent along to accompany them. He refers Ewart to the recent appointment of a bacteriologist to the medical staff of the Foreign Office in East Africa who would be well placed to study 'the [Tsetse] fly question.'
Letter to James Cossar Ewart from Sir Clement Lloyd Hill, 13 August 1903
Hill congratulates Ewart on the offspring of some of his animals. He tells him that he has asked Andrew Linton to visit him and confirm details about the potential shipment of animals to Africa. He encourages Ewart to write to Nature about his current work.
Letter to James Cossar Ewart from Sir James Reid, 13 June 1900
Reid writes regarding the Queen's zebras, and in particular a male zebra which had recently died in the care of Sir Fleetwood Edwards. London Zoo should have been contacted and the Queen as a result is annoyed. He requests that Ewart look at the animal in London with a view to its removal to Windsor Castle where it will be buried, and also to suggest any special treatment that it might require.
Letter to James Cossar Ewart from Sir Walter Peacock, 23 September 1916
Letter to James Cossar Ewart from T I Maughan and Co. Limited, 16 July 1903
The auctioneers inform Ewart that they have been unable to find him a stallion or mare of the colour Ewart requires and without chestnut callosities, but that they will inspect the new shipment of dun ponies coming from the north of Iceland for suitable specimens.