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

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Found in 97 Collections and/or Records:

Letter to Henry John Elwes from James Cossar Ewart, 13 March 1913

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Identifier: Coll-14/9/19/14
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: 13 March 1913

Letter to Henry John Elwes from James Cossar Ewart, 26 May 1913

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Identifier: Coll-14/9/19/19
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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.

Dates: 26 May 1913

Letter to Henry John Elwes from James Cossar Ewart, 05 June 1913

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Identifier: Coll-14/9/19/24
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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.

Dates: 05 June 1913

Letter to Henry John Elwes from James Cossar Ewart, 3 July 1913

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Identifier: Coll-14/9/19/32
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Ewart thanks Elwes for letting him know that the sheep arrived safely, and that he hopes the show will interest the King.

Dates: 3 July 1913

Letter to Henry John Elwes from James Cossar Ewart, 29 September 1913

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Identifier: Coll-14/9/19/49
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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.

Dates: 29 September 1913

Letter to Henry John Elwes from James Cossar Ewart, 29 October 1913

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Identifier: Coll-14/9/19/53
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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.

Dates: 29 October 1913

Letter to James Cossar Ewart from Heatley Noble, 30 March 1912

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Identifier: Coll-14/9/18/15
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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.

Dates: 30 March 1912

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
Scope and Contents

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

Letter to James Cossar Ewart from Henry John Elwes, 11 April [1911]

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Identifier: Coll-14/9/17/20
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: 11 April [1911]

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Sheep 45
Animals--Transportation 35
Rams 31
Shetland sheep 26
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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
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