Elwes, Henry John, 1846-1922 (traveller and botanist)
Found in 120 Collections and/or Records:
Letter to James Cossar Ewart from Henry John Elwes, 22 March 1911
Elwes provides details of his experiences of breeding hunter hounds and foxhounds.
Letter to James Cossar Ewart from Henry John Elwes, 31 March 1911
Elwes mentions an interesting breed of sheep called 'Neerie sheep' he has heard of from Harvie-Brown, as well as another breed, 'dun-faced sheep', which he has read about. He will write to Switzerland for information on a race of Swiss sheep which appears to resemble the Soay sheep and may be a direct descendent of a primeval Swiss breed.
Letter to James Cossar Ewart from Henry John Elwes, 08 April 1911
Elwes suggests that he and Ewart write a joint paper on sheep. He proposes to visit and photograph each different variety of sheep if they are not mongrels. He has heard of a flock of Faroe sheep near Peterborough as well as sheep in Brittany and Iceland.
Letter to James Cossar Ewart from Henry John Elwes, 11 April [1911]
Elwes writes that he is glad that Ewart does not object to joint work, and suggests starting the study with 'the Highland Society' before doing something more ambitious in a few years' time. He asks Ewart to seek out the papers of a society formed more than a 100 years earlier in Edinburgh for the improvement of sheep and wool.
The year is not written on the letter.
Letter to James Cossar Ewart from Henry John Elwes, 22 April 1911
Elwes provides some details of the 'dun-faced sheep' and suggests that Ewart impress on Claud Alexander the importance of photographing the results of his cross-breeding experiments, rather than breeding indiscriminately. He mentions the research of Professor Keller on the Bündner sheep of Switzerland and R.F Scharff in Ireland. He hopes to visit Ewart before going to Shetland.
Letter to James Cossar Ewart from Henry John Elwes, 27 April 1911
Elwes writes about his forthcoming visit to Shetland. Barrett-Hamilton, who is studying the mammals of Great Britain, might be able to advise Ewart in Ireland. Elwes hopes Ewart will be able to find a small park where they can deposit the Orkney and Shetland sheep which Ewart is getting.
Letter to James Cossar Ewart from Henry John Elwes, 17 May 1911
Elwes recommends that Ewart write to the Jardins des Plantes for the carcass of one of the chabin (a goat/sheep hybrid) to ascertain whether or not it is a hybrid, and that someone should inspect and sketch their sheep specimens before they decay much further. He has heard of the existence of a black-faced heath sheep with long curved horns still existing in North Holland which could be related to the old Norfolk sheep.
Letter to James Cossar Ewart from Henry John Elwes, 25 May [1911]
Elwes confirms the time of his visit to Ewart on his way to Shetland. He also wants to meet Wallace.
The year is not written on the letter.
Letter to James Cossar Ewart from Henry John Elwes, [c.11 June 1911]
Letter to James Cossar Ewart from Henry John Elwes, [c. June 1911]
Elwes writes that he will settle with the people of Shetland how many sheep to send and when. He also wants sheep from Fairisle and Foula. Balfour of Dawyck wants some sheep sent along with them, and Elwes asks Ewart if he knows of any place near Leith where the sheep could rest for a week en route. He writes that Wallace is hoping to get a grant to carry out cross-breeding experiments at the University and has suggested working together.
The letter is undated.
Additional filters:
- Subject
- Sheep 45
- Animals--Transportation 40
- Rams 33
- Shetland sheep 26
- Wool 26
- Cross-Breeding 20
- Social Interaction 20
- Ewes 19
- Sheep breeds 18
- Agricultural exhibitions 17
- Animals--Colour 17
- Animal sale 16
- Publications 16
- Lambs 14
- article 14
- Ewart, James Cossar, 1851-1933 -- Correspondence 12
- Photographs 12
- Fat-tailed sheep 11
- Hybrids 11
- Soay sheep 11
- Farms 10
- Sheep, Breeding 10
- Experiments 9
- Hides and Skins 9
- Ovis nivicola 9
- Icelandic sheep 8
- Museums 8
- North Ronaldsay (sheep) 8
- Societies and Clubs 8
- Animal Markings 7
- Castlemilk Moorit (sheep) 6
- Cheviot sheep 6
- Embargo 6
- Proofreading 6
- Welsh mountain sheep 6
- Blackface sheep 5
- Horns 5
- Sheep-shearing 5
- Zoos 5
- Lectures and Lecturing 4
- Ryeland (sheep) 4
- Samples (Commerce) 4
- Textile fabrics 4
- Textile industry 4
- Agricultural Experiment Stations 3
- Animal Breeding 3
- Animal housing 3
- Circular letters 3
- Committees 3
- Domestic Animals 3
- Funding 3
- Hebridean Sheep 3
- Jacob sheep 3
- Karakul sheep 3
- Manx Loaghtan sheep 3
- Merino sheep 3
- Norfolk Horn (sheep) 3
- Physical Characteristics 3
- Reports and Dissertations 3
- Scottish Dunface (sheep) 3
- Skull 3
- Wensleydale (sheep) 3
- Animal breeders 2
- Animals--Health 2
- Authorship, Collaboration 2
- Bulls 2
- Goats 2
- Herdwick (sheep) 2
- Meetings 2
- Prehistoric animals 2
- Quarantine 2
- Research Institutes 2
- Southdown sheep 2
- Valuation 2
- Wallachian sheep 2
- Animal feeding 1
- Archaeological sites 1
- Cattle 1
- Cedar 1
- Climate 1
- Congresses and Conventions 1
- Crofters 1
- Exmoor Horn (sheep) 1
- Faroes (sheep) 1
- Foula sheep 1
- Foxhounds 1
- Hunting dogs--Breeding 1
- Illustrations 1
- Livestock--Breeding--Economic aspects 1
- Meat quality 1
- Newspapers 1
- Ouessant (sheep) 1
- Parasites 1
- Ponies 1
- Pregnancy in animals 1
- Report writing 1
- Rocky Mountain Bighorn Sheep 1
- Sheep shows 1
- Specimens 1
- Tail 1 + ∧ less