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Papers of James Cossar Ewart
    Correspondence

Edinburgh University Library Special Collections Division

Correspondence

Subseries Summary

Reference Code

GB 0237 James Cossar Ewart Gen. 137/9/7

Date(s)

14 December 1900-25 July 1902

Extent and medium of the unit of description

65

letters

Name of creator

Ewart | James Cossar | 1851-1933 | zoologist and professor of natural history, University of Edinburgh

Biographical History

Biographical History

These letters cover a wide range of subject areas, including the transportation of ponies, cross-breeding experiments between a lion and tiger and the measurement of animal skulls in the experiments with horses. The authors of this correspondence include: Henry Fairfield Osborn, Carl Hagenbeck and Theo DA Cockerell.

Scope and Content

Scope and Content

The sub-series of correspondence consists of:

  • 65 letters, chronologically arranged

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