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Wallace, Robert, Professor, 1853-1939 (professor of agriculture and rural economy)

 Person

Found in 29 Collections and/or Records:

Auchenbrain Border Leicesters, 1870s-1930s

 Item
Identifier: Coll-1434/2734
Scope and Contents

Photograph several Auchenbrain Boder Leicester sheep in a pen at Kelso, [Scotland] in 1907 with Mr. Wallace 'ruminating on perspective value'.

Dates: 1870s-1930s

Buffalo, 1870s-1930s

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Identifier: Coll-1434/2693
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Photograph of a buffalo from 1906. Possibly one of Professor Robert Wallace's images since 'Wallace' has been handwritten on the top edge of the slide.

Dates: 1870s-1930s

Canny Scots, 1870s-1930s

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Identifier: Coll-1434/3148
Scope and Contents

Photograph of 'canny Scots' - two men stand beside two women who are sitting on a a park bench on a lawn with trees and mountains in the background in the early 20th century. One of the men is possibly, Professor Robert Wallace.

Dates: 1870s-1930s

Class notes - Lectures on Agriculture and Entemology, given by Professor Wallace and Dr. Fream

 Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1283
Scope and Contents This volume in typescript contains careful notes on these two series of lectures at the University of Edinburgh. The first series, by Professor Robert Wallace (1853-1939), Chair of Agriculture, covers dairying, with extensive coverage of the different types of cheese and their production. The second, by Dr. William Fream, covers agricultural entomology, essentially the varieties of pests that attack crops. There are ink drawings throughout. Spine-title and title-page both...
Dates: 1905-1906

Highland Show, 1870s-1930s

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Identifier: Coll-1434/3177
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Photograph of a group of men: [Sir Walter] Runciman, Wilson, [Thomas] Buttar, R[obert] Wallace, Lord Lucas, H Wallace and McLaren standing together in a show ring at the Highland Show in 1913.

Dates: 1870s-1930s

India Cattle, Calcutta - Wallace, 1870s-1930s

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Identifier: Coll-1434/1285
Scope and Contents

Photograph of a man driving a wagon pulled bya team of India cattle in Calcutta in the early 20th century. The name 'Wallace' is written on the slide, but it is unclear if one of the men in the photograph is [Robert] Wallace or if he is the one that took it.

Dates: 1870s-1930s

Letter to Henry John Elwes from James Cossar Ewart, 20 August 1911

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Identifier: Coll-14/9/17/46
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Ewart writes that he is enclosing a report on the wool from Watson, Wallace's assistant, although he has not yet heard about the Iceland wool. He would like to have the Ronaldsay sheep, and understands that they live between a wall and the sea and feed mainly on seaweed.

Dates: 20 August 1911

Letter to James Cossar Ewart from E. Brand, 14 July 1903

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Identifier: Coll-14/9/9/75
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Brand informs Ewart that he has recently returned from Egypt hoping to call upon Professor Wallace, who would have introduced them. He writes that he has photographs which he took on the Aboukir Company's mule breeding farm near Alexandria of a mare with twin horse and mule foals. He comments that this must be a very rare instance of 'double conception' and says he would be happy to show Ewart the photographs.

Dates: 14 July 1903

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

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Identifier: Coll-14/9/17/31
Scope and Contents

Elwes confirms the time of his visit to Ewart on his way to Shetland. He also wants to meet Wallace.

The year is not written on the letter.

Dates: 25 May [1911]

Letter to James Cossar Ewart from Henry John Elwes, [c.11 June 1911]

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Identifier: Coll-14/9/17/33
Scope and Contents Elwes writes from Shetland that he has had a pleasant and successful trip seeing 'some of the best sheep in Shetland', although he fears that there are no pure Shetland sheep left. He provides details of the sheep he has purchased. He wishes to see Ewart on his journey south to arrange the forwarding of the ewe hoggs Elwes has bought from him. He urges Ewart to examine the wool which he addressed to Wallace at the University. The letter is undated but marked 'Sunday', which,...
Dates: [c.11 June 1911]

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Photographs 4
Shetland sheep 4
Wool 4
Animals--Transportation 3
Cattle 3