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, 23 September 1911
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Identifier: Coll-14/9/17/60
Scope and Contents
Elwes reports that Hall, a mutual acquaintance, approves of Ewart's paper and feels that it paves the way for something on a larger scale later. Elwes has received a pair of Rocky sheep, and asks Ewart if he wants a long-tailed black Welsh ram lamb. He has heard that the Board of Agriculture are trying to get a farm where animals for exporting will be tested for tuberculosis and imported animals received in quarantine.
Dates:
23 September 1911
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