NAHSTE: Letter to James Cossar Ewart from Philip Lutley Sclater

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Letter to James Cossar Ewart from Philip Lutley Sclater
Item Summary
Reference Code	GB 0237 James Cossar Ewart Gen. 137/9/6/165
Date(s)	15 February 1901
Extent and medium of the unit of description	1 letter
Name of creator	Sclater \| Philip Lutley \| 1829-1913 \| editor and president of the Zoological Society of London
Scope and Content
Scope and Content	Letter to James Cossar Ewart from Philip Lutley Sclater answering Cossar Ewart's question about experiments in inbreeding in the Zoological Gardens. They are careful to inject new blood into their breeding programmes, to sustain the size, health and reproductive powers of the animals.
Index
Subjects	Breeders, Livestock Breeding Experiments Inbreeding
People	Ewart \| James Cossar \| 1851-1933 \| zoologist and professor of natural history, University of Edinburgh Sclater \| Philip Lutley \| 1829-1913 \| editor and president of the Zoological Society of London
Businesses and Organisations	Zoological Society of London \| 1826-: \| scientific society
Places	London Zoological Gardens \| 1828-:
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Letter to James Cossar Ewart from Philip Lutley Sclater