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A possible genetic interpretation of the colour variants in the fleece of the Gotland and the Goth sheep, 1978

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Identifier: Coll-1362/1/617
Scope and Contents

Located in A.B.R.O. Reprints 1978. Volume 12 of 19.

Dates: 1978

Changes in epidermal and wool pigmentation in autografts of sheep skin, May 1979

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Identifier: Coll-1362/1/681
Scope and Contents

Located in A.B.R.O. Reprints 1979. Volume 13 of 19.

Dates: May 1979

Coat colour inheritance in Soay, Orkney Shetland sheep, 1974

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Identifier: Coll-1362/1/480
Scope and Contents

Located in A.B.R.O. Reprints 1973 - 1974. Volume 8 of 19.

Dates: 1974

Fleece colour in sheep and its inheritance, June 1980

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Identifier: Coll-1362/1/708
Scope and Contents

Located in A.B.R.O. Reprints 1980. Volume 14 of 19.

Dates: June 1980

Guernsey Cow, showing typical broken colouring, 1870s-1930s

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Identifier: Coll-1434/150
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Photograph of a Guernsey cow with typical broken colouring standing in the grass in the early 20th century.

Dates: 1870s-1930s

Highland Pony, Braemore. Yellow Dun and Striped Horse Race, 1870s-1930s

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Identifier: Coll-1434/3079
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Photograph of a Highland pony in a paddock in Braemore [Scotland] in the early 20th century of the yellow dun and striped horse race.

Dates: 1870s-1930s

Letter from James Cossar Ewart to Robert Alexander, 08 November 1903

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Identifier: Coll-14/9/9/116
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Alexander thanks Ewart for telling him about the model he saw in London recently and discusses the colourings of Arab horses. He writes that he would gladly undertake a modelling commission and hopes to meet Ewart to discuss the matter further.

Dates: 08 November 1903

Letter (incomplete) to James Cossar Ewart from unknown author, 21 March 1898

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Identifier: Coll-14/9/4/6
Scope and Contents The author thanks Ewart for sending him the hair samples of his zebras 'Romulus' and 'Matopo', and explaining that he has been much preoccupied by analysing the shell structure of ostrich eggs in the Masai country. He expounds his theories on what the markings and legstripes of zebras can reveal about which species they are. He analyses the colourings and markings of 'Matopo', 'Romulus' etc, and discusses the ramifications of telegony. The end of the letter, including the...
Dates: 21 March 1898

Letter to Alex Cowan from Henry John Elwes, 11 June 1911

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Identifier: Coll-14/9/17/32
Scope and Contents Elwes writes from Shetland that he has not been able to find Cowan a grey ram but he has seen two tup lambs in Mr Gordon's flock which may prove to be the right colour. He reports that all the Shetlanders he spoke to inform him that the pure Shetland sheep can hardly be found now, but there are many sheep among the white and moorit which if carefully selected, bred and pastured, can be just as good. He is sure that breeding Shetland sheep could be a lucrative business, although he fears they...
Dates: 11 June 1911

Letter to Barrington Balfour from Charles Dundas, 24 March 1900

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Identifier: Coll-14/9/6/10
Scope and Contents

Dundas supplies information regarding the breeding of khaki-coloured zebras in Norway and suggests that the best person to approach is one S.J Steversen, an agricultural agent at Stavanger, Norway.

Dates: 24 March 1900

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Elwes, Henry John, 1846-1922 (traveller and botanist) 17
Cecil, Arthur, Lord, 1851-1913 (captain) 16
Alexander, Sir Claud, fl 1910-1930 8
Osborn, Henry Fairfield, 1857-1935 (curator, American Museum of Natural History, New York) 8
Ridgeway, Sir William, 1853-1926 (classicist and Disney professor of archaeology, University of Cambridge (England)) 7
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Hagenbeck, Carl, 1844-1913 (German animal dealer and trainer) 6
Cockerell, Theodore Dru Alison, 1866-1948 (American naturalist) 5
Russell, Herbrand Arthur, 11th Duke of Bedford, 1858-1940 5
Cecil, Frieda, fl1904 (wife of Lord Arthur Cecil) 4
Gladstone, Hugh S, fl1903-1949 (public servant and ornithologist) 4
Haveley, Charles R., Lieutenant-Colonel, fl 1912 4
Ryder, Michael Lawson, 1927-2015 4
Clemens, Earnest Allen, 1859-1924 (American ranch owner and chemist) 3
Cowan, Alex, fl 1911 (Dalhousie Castle, Bonnyrigg (Scotland)) 3
Lort, G.P, fl 1910 3
McDonald, John, fl 1902 3
McLeod, Roderick, fl1903 3
Pocock, Reginald Innes, 1863-1947 (British zoologist) 3
Royal Highland and Agricultural Society of Scotland (1784-:) 3
White, T.M.A, fl 1922 3
American Museum of Natural History (1869-:) 2
Balfour, Alice Blanche, 1850-1936 (sister of 1st Earl of Balfour) 2
Blunt, Wilfred Scawen, 1840-1922 (traveller, politician, and poet) 2
Board of Agriculture and Fisheries (1903-1919) 2
Congested Districts Board (Scotland) (1897-1911) 2
Crichton-Stuart, John, 4th Marquess of Bute, 1881-1947 (Scottish peer) 2
Edinburgh Zoo. Edinburgh Zoological Gardens (1913) 2
Ewart, Spencer, Lieutenant Colonel, fl1905 (military secretary at War Office) 2
Fernley, C A, c1900s (photographer) 2
Forsyth, James Noel Muller, 1844-1923 (landowner, Quinish, Tobermory) 2
Gadow, Hans Friedrich, 1855-1928 (German ornithologist) 2
Gordon, William, fl 1913 2
Hope, Estella Mary, Lady, c.1866-1958 (pony breeder and trainer) 2
Lydekker, Richard, 1849-1915 (palaeontologist) 2
Oliphant, George A., Colonel, fl 1898-1910 (employee on Woburn estate, Bedfordshire (England)) 2
Robertson, J.B, fl 1910 2
Sutherland, Charles L., c.1840-? (civil servant) 2
University of Edinburgh (Scottish University) 2
Willoughby, Digby Wentworth Bayard, 9th Baron Middleton, 1844-1922 2
Woburn Abbey 2
Adalsteinsson, S, fl1978 1
Alexander, Robert, 1840-1923 (Scottish painter of dogs and horses) 1
Allen, Clement Francis Romilly, c.1844-1920 (author) 1
Anchor Line (1865:-) 1
Baillie, Fred J., fl1904 1
Balding, Arthur J., fl 1906 1
Barker, Aldred F., fl 1921 (professor of textile industries, University of Leeds) 1
Bond, C.J, fl 1906 1
Borland, Edith D, fl1980 1
Boyazoglu, J G, fl1978 1
British Association for the Advancement of Science (1831-:) 1
British Museum (1753-:) 1
British Museum (Natural History) (1881-1991) 1
Campbell, John Douglas-Boswell, fl 1924 1
Carnegie Trust for the Universities of Scotland (1901-:) 1
Chartley Hall (1847-) 1
Congreve, Walter Norris, Lieutenant-General, 1862-1927 1
Cullingford, Joseph, fl.1904 (taxidermist) 1
Dando, W.P, fl 1904 (official photographer to the Zoological Society, London (England)) 1
Ditchburn, R, fl1974 1
Dublin Science and Art Museum (1878-:) 1
Dundas, Charles Henry, Sir, 1951-1908 1
Dykes, Thomas, fl 1903 1
Edinburgh Museum of Science and Art (1864-1904) 1
Ewart nee Muir, Edith Fairlie, 1878-1953 (third wife of James Cossar Ewart) 1
Ewart, James Cossar, 1851-1933 (zoologist and professor of natural history, University of Edinburgh) 1
Flaxman, AE, fl1900 (dog breeder) 1
Fortescue, Hugh, 1854-1932 (4th Earl Fortescue | politician and sportsman) 1
Fowler nee Bayley, Alice Janet Clive, Lady, 1856 (wife of Sir John Arthur Fowler, 2nd Baronet) 1
France, James Geoffrey Cave, fl 1901 (officer with the Royal Irish Constabulary) 1
Galbraith, Charles, c1900s (horse owner) 1
Gartly, Mrs, fl. 1914 (Hawick) 1
Green, C.E, fl 1902 1
Greystoke Castle (1069-:) 1
Hally, Will, fl 1908 1
Harvie-Brown, John Alexander, 1844-1916 (ornithologist) 1
Hayes, Matthew Horace, 1842-1904 (veterinarian and author on horses) 1
Henriques, Henry, fl1901 1
Howard, Henry, 1877-1917 (19th Earl of Suffolk) 1
Hughs, John P, fl1902 1
Hurst, D Ewart, fl1903 (merchant and shipper) 1
Jackson, Henry Mather, 2nd Baronet, 1831-1881 (British Liberal Party politician and High Court judge) 1
Kitchener, Horatio Herbert, 1850-1916 (1st Earl of Khartoum and of Broome | British field marshal and colonial administrator) 1
Land, Roger Burton, 1940-1988 (animal geneticist, director, Institute of Animal Physiology and Genetics Research) 1
Lauvergne, J J, fl1978 1
Leather, J.H.K Mursenden, fl 1911 (editor) 1
London Zoological Gardens (1828-:) 1
MacGregor, Marion, fl1902 (Craigston, Castlebay, Barra) 1
MacKenzie, Osgood H., 1842 - 1922 (garden architect | Inverewe | Ross and Cromarty) 1
Mackenzie, J.H Munro, fl1902-1908 (Scottish pony breeder) 1
Mackenzie, John T, fl1903 (Dunvegan, Skye) 1
Maclean, fl 1908 1
Macleod, J.J, fl 1908 (horse breeder) 1
Malcolm, Edward Donald, Colonel, 1837-1930 (16th Laird of Poltalloch) 1
McKinnon, John, fl1903 1
Montefiore, Durbin Brice, Reverend, c. 1861-1948 1
Mungall, William, fl 1899-1908 (horse breeder) 1
Muntz, J. Oscar, fl 1905 (horse breeder) 1
Naski, N, Lieutenant Colonel, fl 1897 1
New Mexico State University Agricultural Experiment Station (1889-:) 1
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