Elwes, Henry John, 1846-1922 (traveller and botanist)
Found in 97 Collections and/or Records:
Letter to Henry John Elwes from James Cossar Ewart, 13 March 1913
Ewart writes concerning a paper which has gone missing in the post. Some of Elwes' lambs have been infected with parasites and are paralysed. He asks whether Elwes would like to give a couple of lectures indicating what vets should know about sheep as part of a course Ewart is organising.
Letter to Henry John Elwes from James Cossar Ewart, 26 May 1913
Ewart reports that the Board of Agriculture see no reason why someone should not be sent to purchase all the sheep that may be rented by him and others, but they are reluctant to move towards forming a Shetland sheep society.
Letter to Henry John Elwes from James Cossar Ewart, 05 June 1913
Ewart writes that Watson has started for Shetland with sufficient introductions. Ewart's paper will appear in the Transactions of the Highland and Agricultural Society of Scotland. He asks what Elwes wants done with the Shetland hoggs when shorn and with the wethers.
Letter to Henry John Elwes from James Cossar Ewart, 3 July 1913
Ewart thanks Elwes for letting him know that the sheep arrived safely, and that he hopes the show will interest the King.
Letter to Henry John Elwes from James Cossar Ewart, 29 September 1913
Ewart writes that he has written about the 'Murrayshire' sheep which he heard about at the Board of Agriculture. Ten Shetland fleeces and some Soay-Southdown wool have been sent to Sanderson. He asks Elwes to return the Soay-Southdown and the Siberian fleeces sent to the Bristol show as they belong to the University.
Letter to Henry John Elwes from James Cossar Ewart, 29 October 1913
Ewart writes that he would like to see the Iceland dressed skins and asks Elwes to send them to the University. He would like to go to Iceland and if he is able to go next year, Watson would be delighted to join him.
Letter to James Cossar Ewart from Heatley Noble, 30 March 1912
Noble writes that he is expecting a visit from Elwes and that Ewart is welcome to stay too. He sees in The Field that Lydekker still believes that a certain breed of sheep are from South Africa although he has not been able to provide any proof, and that they were certainly in Britain 100 years before either of the flocks he mentions.
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.
Additional filters:
- Subject
- Sheep 45
- Animals--Transportation 35
- Rams 31
- Shetland sheep 26
- Wool 25
- Cross-Breeding 19
- Sheep breeds 18
- Ewes 17
- Animals--Colour 16
- Agricultural exhibitions 15
- Social Interaction 15
- Animal sale 14
- Ewart, James Cossar, 1851-1933 -- Correspondence 12
- Lambs 12
- Publications 12
- Fat-tailed sheep 11
- Hybrids 11
- Photographs 11
- Soay sheep 11
- Sheep, Breeding 10
- Experiments 9
- Farms 9
- Hides and Skins 9
- article 9
- Icelandic sheep 8
- Museums 8
- North Ronaldsay (sheep) 8
- Ovis nivicola 8
- Animal Markings 7
- Societies and Clubs 7
- Castlemilk Moorit (sheep) 6
- Cheviot sheep 6
- Welsh mountain sheep 6
- Blackface sheep 5
- Embargo 5
- Horns 5
- Sheep-shearing 5
- Zoos 5
- Lectures and Lecturing 4
- Ryeland (sheep) 4
- Samples (Commerce) 4
- Textile fabrics 4
- Agricultural Experiment Stations 3
- Animal housing 3
- Circular letters 3
- Domestic Animals 3
- Hebridean Sheep 3
- Jacob sheep 3
- Karakul sheep 3
- Manx Loaghtan sheep 3
- Merino sheep 3
- Norfolk Horn (sheep) 3
- Physical Characteristics 3
- Scottish Dunface (sheep) 3
- Skull 3
- Textile industry 3
- Wensleydale (sheep) 3
- Animal Breeding 2
- Animal breeders 2
- Animals--Health 2
- Authorship, Collaboration 2
- Committees 2
- Funding 2
- Goats 2
- Herdwick (sheep) 2
- Meetings 2
- Prehistoric animals 2
- Quarantine 2
- Reports and Dissertations 2
- Research Institutes 2
- Southdown sheep 2
- Valuation 2
- Wallachian sheep 2
- Animal feeding 1
- Archaeological sites 1
- Bulls 1
- Cattle 1
- Climate 1
- Congresses and Conventions 1
- Crofters 1
- Exmoor Horn (sheep) 1
- Faroes (sheep) 1
- Foula sheep 1
- Illustrations 1
- Livestock--Breeding--Economic aspects 1
- Meat quality 1
- Ouessant (sheep) 1
- Parasites 1
- Pregnancy in animals 1
- Proofreading 1
- Report writing 1
- Rocky Mountain Bighorn Sheep 1
- Sheep shows 1
- Specimens 1
- Tail 1
- Takin 1
- Taxidermy 1
- Tuberculosis 1
- Veterinary Medicine 1
- Wiltshire Horn (sheep) 1 + ∧ less