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, 19 February 1912
Item
Identifier: Coll-14/9/18/8
Scope and Contents
Elwes asks Ewart to send one of his papers to Collett at the Zoological Museum, Christiana (Oslo), to remind him about an enquiry Elwes received concerning the races of sheep on the islands of the Norwegian coast, from which it has been supposed that the Shetland or Soay stock originated.
Dates:
19 February 1912
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- Agricultural exhibitions 1
- Animal Markings 1
- Animals--Colour 1
- Castlemilk Moorit (sheep) 1
- Crofters 1
- Ewart, James Cossar, 1851-1933 -- Correspondence 1
- Ewes 1
- Farms 1
- Horns 1
- Lambs 1
- North Ronaldsay (sheep) 1
- Physical Characteristics 1
- Rams 1
- Sheep breeds 1
- Soay sheep 1
- Tail 1
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