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Papers of James Cossar Ewart
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Edinburgh University Library Special Collections Division

Letter to James Cossar Ewart from William Bernhard Tegetmeier

Item Summary

Reference Code

GB 0237 James Cossar Ewart Gen. 137/9/2/31

Date(s)

25 August 1896

Extent and medium of the unit of description

1

letter

Name of creator

Tegetmeier | William Bernhard | 1816-1912 | naturalist, journalist and pigeon fancier

Scope and Content

Scope and Content

Letter to James Cossar Ewart from William Bernhard Tegetmeier containing gossip about Dr Butler of the British Museum and his assertion in the Feathered World that he had seen two mules in foal in a drove of 50 in Spain, and the driver had told him mule mares were often infertile.

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