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Elwes, Henry John, 1846-1922 (traveller and botanist)

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Found in 120 Collections and/or Records:

Letter to James Cossar Ewart from Henry John Elwes, [c.1913]

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Identifier: Coll-14/9/19/62
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Elwes writes that he has looked over the ram and proposes to send it to Edinburgh Zoo or to Ewart if he wishes to have it, as well as the horned white ram that he bought as an Icelander. He wonders if the Edinburgh Museum would like to have his best old Hebridean. He describes the sheep crosses he is planning to conduct.

Letter is undated but marked 'Sunday'.

Dates: [c.1913]

Letter to James Cossar Ewart from Henry John Elwes, 11 November 1911

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Identifier: Coll-14/9/17/76
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Elwes agrees with Ewart on Wallace's proposition concerning the Karakul sheep, and states that he has declined to sign the application unless it is considerably modified, with Ewart's original writing to be reinstated.

Dates: 11 November 1911

Letter to James Cossar Ewart from Henry John Elwes, 16 November 1911

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Identifier: Coll-14/9/17/77
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Elwes writes that he is sending Ewart his paper for him to check, and asks him to select some photographs after consulting Eagle Clarke. He is also returning the original application as altered by Wallace, and recommends that Ewart make contact with Carruthers.

Dates: 16 November 1911

Letter to James Cossar Ewart from Henry John Elwes, 25 November [1911]

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Identifier: Coll-14/9/17/79
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Elwes writes that he has no doubt that Carruthers will publish his discoveries when he returns. He asks that Ewart return the proof of his paper by 01 December at the latest. He commiserates over Ewart's farm and promises to help him when he returns to England the following year.

The year is not written on the letter.

Dates: 25 November [1911]

Letter to James Cossar Ewart from Henry John Elwes, [c. 26 November 1911]

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Identifier: Coll-14/9/17/80
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Elwes writes that he would be very glad to get a proof back from Eagle Clark by 01 December.

The letter is not dated, although marked 'Sunday', which appears to place it the Sunday before 01 December, ie the 26 November 1911.

Dates: [c. 26 November 1911]

Letter to James Cossar Ewart from Henry John Elwes, 19 February 1912

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Identifier: Coll-14/9/18/8
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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

Letter to James Cossar Ewart from Henry John Elwes, 08 July 1912

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Identifier: Coll-14/9/18/46
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Elwes writes that he is sending Ewart a photograph of the 'so-called Cabul sheep' at Tetbury, which he thinks look like St Kildas. He asks Ewart to bring with him the Takin horns which he left in Ewart's house when he visits Elwes.

Dates: 08 July 1912

Letter to James Cossar Ewart from Henry John Elwes, 22 March 1911

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Identifier: Coll-14/9/17/13
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Elwes provides details of his experiences of breeding hunter hounds and foxhounds.

Dates: 22 March 1911

Letter to James Cossar Ewart from Henry John Elwes, 31 March 1911

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Identifier: Coll-14/9/17/16
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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.

Dates: 31 March 1911

Letter to James Cossar Ewart from Henry John Elwes, 08 April 1911

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Identifier: Coll-14/9/17/19
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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.

Dates: 08 April 1911

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Subject
Sheep 45
Animals--Transportation 40
Rams 33
Shetland sheep 26
Wool 26
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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
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