Elwes, Henry John, 1846-1922 (traveller and botanist)
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Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Letter to Henry John Elwes from James Cossar Ewart, 12 August 1912
Item
Identifier: Coll-14/9/18/49
Scope and Contents
Ewart writes from Lerwick, Shetland, that he would be happy to arrange to keep the 15 ewes and lambs at Fairslacks for a year at a fair price, although it will be best not to add to the permanent stock until the farm is taken over by the University in October or November that year. At an exhibition on Shetland he saw a ewe as small as the one in the British Museum from Papa Stour with goat-like horns and a very short tail, as well as a hornless, short-tailed ewe with white patches at Foula;...
Dates:
12 August 1912
Letter to James Cossar Ewart from Henry John Elwes, [c.1913]
Item
Identifier: Coll-14/9/19/62
Scope and Contents
Elwes writes that he has looked over the ram and proposes to send it to Edinburgh Zoo or to Ewart if he wishes to have it, as well as the horned white ram that he bought as an Icelander. He wonders if the Edinburgh Museum would like to have his best old Hebridean. He describes the sheep crosses he is planning to conduct.
Letter is undated but marked 'Sunday'.
Dates:
[c.1913]
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- Agricultural exhibitions 1
- Animal Markings 1
- Animals--Transportation 1
- Castlemilk Moorit (sheep) 1
- Crofters 1
- Cross-Breeding 1
- Ewart, James Cossar, 1851-1933 -- Correspondence 1
- Ewes 1
- Farms 1
- Hebridean Sheep 1
- Icelandic sheep 1
- Lambs 1
- North Ronaldsay (sheep) 1
- Physical Characteristics 1
- Sheep, Breeding 1
- Shetland sheep 1
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