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, 31 May 1913
Item
Identifier: Coll-14/9/19/20
Scope and Contents
Elwes asks Ewart to approve a short notice of their exhibit for insertion in press information. He believes it would be more interesting to show the Southdown-Soay cross and lamb instead of the Wensleydale.
Dates:
31 May 1913
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- Animal Markings 1
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- Castlemilk Moorit (sheep) 1
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- Ewart, James Cossar, 1851-1933 -- Correspondence 1
- Ewes 1
- Farms 1
- Horns 1
- Hybrids 1
- Museums 1
- North Ronaldsay (sheep) 1
- Physical Characteristics 1
- Rams 1
- Shetland sheep 1
- Soay sheep 1
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