Woburn Abbey
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Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
Letter to James Cossar Ewart from Colonel George A. Oliphant, 05 May 1907
Item
Identifier: Coll-14/9/13/15
Scope and Contents
Oliphant asks on behalf of the Duke of Bedford for confirmation on when the ponies are likely to arrive at Woburn. He also asks with what stallion Ewart would like them to be crossed.
Dates:
05 May 1907
Letter to James Cossar Ewart from Herbrand Arthur Russell, 11th Duke of Bedford, 09 April 1907
Item
Identifier: Coll-14/9/13/9
Scope and Contents
Russell, who signs himself 'Bedford', writes that he is ready to continue experiments with Przewalski's horses and asks Ewart to send the pony mares that he wants to cross to Woburn. He comments that his Grevy's zebra is due to foal soon.
Dates:
09 April 1907
Letter to James Cossar Ewart from Reginald Innes Pocock, 04 October 1917
Item
Identifier: Coll-14/9/23/9
Scope and Contents
Pocock writes that the only specimens of long and fat-tailed sheep that he knows of in England are at Woburn. He is afraid Ewart will never get hold of an Ovis poli or Ovis ammon, as the Zoological Society has only had one in the course of its history and they are practically unobtainable. He asks whether Ewart could make do with Ovis vignei, as all the Asiatic sheep are very close. He offers to run a Vignei ram...
Dates:
04 October 1917
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- Ponies 2
- Argali (sheep) 1
- Ewes 1
- Experiments 1
- Fat-tailed sheep 1
- Grevy's zebra 1
- Horses--Breeding 1
- Mares 1
- Pregnancy in animals 1
- Przewalski's Horse 1
- Rams 1
- Sheep breeds 1
- Soay sheep 1
- Societies and Clubs 1
- Stallions 1
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