Elwes, Henry John, 1846-1922 (traveller and botanist)
Found in 97 Collections and/or Records:
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, [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.
Letter to James Cossar Ewart from Henry John Elwes, 04 July 1911
Elwes is sending Ewart the fleece of a Cheviot-Shetland cross from Shetland and that he will also receive a fleece of a first-prize shearling Welsh ewe. He is also enclosing photographs of sheep showing four generations and asks Ewart's advice on what would be the most interesting cross out of them. He asks when Ewart and Wallace are going to examine the wools.
Letter to James Cossar Ewart from Henry John Elwes, 11 August 1911
Elwes writes that he has received a letter from Duncan Robertson of Kirkwall to say that he had got Elwes a pair of North Ronaldsay sheep. Elwes will ask him to send them to Ewart and he is welcome to keep them for a year if they are of interest. He is also enclosing 50 copies of the circular and can provide a list of the recipients.
Letter to James Cossar Ewart from Henry John Elwes, 12 August 1911
Elwes is sending Ewart samples of Iceland wool which he would like him to compare them with Cowan's. He judges it to be less fine than the Shetland and not as long as the white wool. He also lists the names of the recipients of the circular he has sent.
Letter to James Cossar Ewart from Henry John Elwes, 18 August 1911
Elwes writes that if Duncan Robertson cannot keep the two North Ronaldsay sheep until September, he has been instructed to send them to Ewart.
Letter to James Cossar Ewart from Henry John Elwes, 23 August [1911]
Elwes thanks Ewart for the report, and requests that Watson returns the fleeces to him at once as he wants to show them to a cloth manufacturer as well as to Bateson, who will be visiting. He will send Ewart his Norfolk rams if he wants to try crossing them with some Cheviots. He has received few answers to the circular, and complains of 'the apathy of the average English landowner'.
The year is not written on the letter.
Additional filters:
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- 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