Elwes, Henry John, 1846-1922 (traveller and botanist)
Person
Found in 12 Collections and/or Records:
Letter to James Cossar Ewart from Henry John Elwes, [c.1913]
Item
Identifier: Coll-14/9/19/62
Scope and Contents
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 Sir Claud Alexander, 10 June 1914
Item
Identifier: Coll-14/9/20/11
Scope and Contents
Alexander writes that he doesn't have very many old sheep but plenty of piebalds and shearling rams for 30 shillings each as well as a black ewe which interested Elwes. He asks Ewart to let him know which sheep he wants as he must send all his spare stock to market due to the drought.
Dates:
10 June 1914
Additional filters:
- Subject
- Animals--Transportation 7
- Sheep 6
- Cross-Breeding 5
- Lambs 5
- Sheep, Breeding 5
- Animal sale 4
- Ewes 4
- Fat-tailed sheep 3
- Photographs 3
- Shetland sheep 3
- Agricultural exhibitions 2
- Animal Markings 2
- Castlemilk Moorit (sheep) 2
- Embargo 2
- Farms 2
- Horns 2
- Museums 2
- Ovis nivicola 2
- Physical Characteristics 2
- Social Interaction 2
- Welsh mountain sheep 2
- Wool 2
- Animals--Health 1
- Blackface sheep 1
- Bulls 1
- Crofters 1
- Ewart, James Cossar, 1851-1933 -- Correspondence 1
- Hebridean Sheep 1
- Hybrids 1
- Icelandic sheep 1
- Jacob sheep 1
- Livestock--Breeding--Economic aspects 1
- Manx Loaghtan sheep 1
- North Ronaldsay (sheep) 1
- Publications 1
- Quarantine 1
- Rocky Mountain Bighorn Sheep 1
- Sheep breeds 1
- Sheep-shearing 1
- Soay sheep 1
- Tail 1
- Tuberculosis 1
- Wallachian sheep 1
- Wensleydale (sheep) 1
- Zoos 1
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