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Java pony

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Subject Source: Local sources
Scope Note: Created For = TD

Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:

Letter to James Cossar Ewart from Carl Hagenbeck, 08 April 1902

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Identifier: Coll-14/9/8/30
Scope and Contents Hagenbeck thanks Ewart for sending the photographs of 'Remus' and a black hybrid mare, along with an estimated cost for the pair. He asks if Ewart could send him the stallion which is for Henry Fairfield Osborn in New York, as he wishes to combine the shipping with some animals of his own. He adds that he now has a pair of Chapman's zebras, which he is sending from Hamburg to India. He would like to negotiate the sale of two Java ponies to Ewart in exchange for a stallion and two Shetland...
Dates: 08 April 1902

Letter to James Cossar Ewart from Carl Hagenbeck, 30 September 1905

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Identifier: Coll-14/9/11/36
Scope and Contents

Hagenbeck writes that the Przewalski's stallion with a longer mane than the others is now in the Zoological Gardens, Cincinnati. He is sorry that Ewart lost his Przewalski's horse without having a foal from him, and offers to send him one of his stallions for a year. He hopes to find a customer for Ewart's hybrid Onager and will send Ewart a photograph of his Java pony, which he will have to sell. He will also try to find out where the skin of a mountain zebra can be obtained.

Dates: 30 September 1905

Letter to James Cossar Ewart from Charles Hose, 11 February 1904

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Identifier: Coll-14/9/10/13
Scope and Contents Hose writes from Baram, Sarawak, to say that he has managed to obtain another skull of a pony which is said to have come from Sulu but which he thinks is a Celebes due to its size. He is interested to see how it will compare with the skull of the pony Professor Haddon brought back for Ewart and the skull of the Javan pony. He sees no difference between the Borneo and the Sulu ponies, believing that all the animals which are enclosed and captured from time to time are descended from Sulus. He...
Dates: 11 February 1904