Elwes, Henry John, 1846-1922 (traveller and botanist)
Person
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, 08 June 1912
Item
Identifier: Coll-14/9/18/39
Scope and Contents
Elwes writes that he will read Ewart's lecture on the origin of domesic animals with great interest. He has asked for some photographs of sheep skulls in the Museum at Cambridge. He reports that he has received a letter from Hudson Beare asking Elwes' opinion of Ewart's farm at Fairslacks, as someone has objected to it being too high and cold.
Dates:
08 June 1912
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- Castlemilk Moorit (sheep) 1
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- Ewart, James Cossar, 1851-1933 -- Correspondence 1
- Ewes 1
- Horns 1
- Lambs 1
- Lectures and Lecturing 1
- North Ronaldsay (sheep) 1
- Photographs 1
- Physical Characteristics 1
- Rams 1
- Sheep 1
- Shetland sheep 1
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