Correspondence

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These letters of James Cossar Ewart deal mainly with topics such as his advice on reading material in the field of anatomy, discussions about experimental work in telegony and the hybridisation of zebras and horses with the French zoologist Alfred Giard, and the sale of mares at the farm of Wilfred Scawen Blunt.

The sub-series of correspondence consists of:

• 19 letters from a variety of authors, including naturalists, zoologists and politicians.

• Anatomy
• Mares
• Telegony

• Blunt | Wilfred Scawen | 1840-1922 | traveller, politician, and poet
• Ewart | James Cossar | 1851-1933 | zoologist and professor of natural history, University of Edinburgh
• Giard | Alfred Mathieu | 1846-1908 | French zoologist and director of the Faculte des Sciences, Sorbonne

• University of Edinburgh | 1583-: | university | Edinburgh (Scotland)

• Aberdeen (Scotland)
• Edinburgh (Scotland)
• London (England)