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, 14 February [1913]
Item
Identifier: Coll-14/9/19/8
Scope and Contents
Elwes writes that he is away in South France and that two men in Algeria informed him that in Morocco there is a race of sheep which could be the origin of the Spanish Merino, and that the spotted sheep are much like a breed which now exists in the Constantine province and which occasionally has four horns. He has seen three or four more or less distinct breeds of sheep in the Basque country.
The year is not written on the letter.
Dates:
14 February [1913]
Additional filters:
- Subject
- Agricultural exhibitions 1
- Animals--Colour 1
- Castlemilk Moorit (sheep) 1
- Crofters 1
- Ewart, James Cossar, 1851-1933 -- Correspondence 1
- Ewes 1
- Farms 1
- Lambs 1
- Merino sheep 1
- Museums 1
- North Ronaldsay (sheep) 1
- Physical Characteristics 1
- Rams 1
- Sheep 1
- Sheep breeds 1
- Shetland sheep 1
- Tail 1 + ∧ less
∨ more