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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
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

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
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

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
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

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
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

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
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Letter to Henry John Elwes from James Cossar Ewart, 12 August 1912

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Identifier: Coll-14/9/18/49
Scope and Contents Ewart writes from Lerwick, Shetland, that he would be happy to arrange to keep the 15 ewes and lambs at Fairslacks for a year at a fair price, although it will be best not to add to the permanent stock until the farm is taken over by the University in October or November that year. At an exhibition on Shetland he saw a ewe as small as the one in the British Museum from Papa Stour with goat-like horns and a very short tail, as well as a hornless, short-tailed ewe with white patches at Foula;...
Dates: 12 August 1912
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Letter to James Cossar Ewart from A. Blakes Wildman, 30 November 1929

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Identifier: Coll-14/9/35/9
Scope and Contents

Wildman enquires as to whether Ewart could put him in touch with someone who could obtain for him a Soay sheep skin, ideally of a foetus, for his histological work on the development of the coats of British sheep.

Dates: 30 November 1929
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Letter to James Cossar Ewart from Aldred F. Barker, 10 December 1921

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Identifier: Coll-14/9/27/9
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Barker asks Ewart to advise him on the possibilities of using Blackface sheep to produce the several colours obtained in Herdwick. He assures Ewart that when they have finished with a large cloth order, they will proceed with the patterns selected by Mrs Ewart. He wonders whether the Research Association are not helping Ewart as much as they might.

Dates: 10 December 1921
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Letter to James Cossar Ewart from G.P Lort, 11 October 1910

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Identifier: Coll-14/9/16/19
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Lort writes that he can let Ewart have four or five pure-bred brown St Kilda ewes. He has tried crossing them with the Southdown Shropshire and the four-horned red Manx and he is now trying the Cheviot. He offers to sell Ewart some lambs from a St Kilda ewe and Manx ram cross.

Dates: 11 October 1910
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Letter to James Cossar Ewart from G.P. Lort, 20 October 1910

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Identifier: Coll-14/9/16/22
Scope and Contents

Lort writes that he will send Mr Pocock one St Kilda ewe and a Welsh ewe. He offers to send Ewart a ewe out of a St Kilda by a Shropshire ram and a lamb by a Red Manx as well as the Welsh ewe lambs and St Kilda ewes.

Dates: 20 October 1910
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

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Names
Elwes, Henry John, 1846-1922 (traveller and botanist) 16
Ryder, Michael Lawson, 1927-2015 4
Cowan, Alex, fl 1911 (Dalhousie Castle, Bonnyrigg (Scotland)) 3
Lort, G.P, fl 1910 3
White, T.M.A, fl 1922 3
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Alexander, Sir Claud, fl 1910-1930 2
Crichton-Stuart, John, 4th Marquess of Bute, 1881-1947 (Scottish peer) 2
Gordon, William, fl 1913 2
Adalsteinsson, S, fl1978 1
Barker, Aldred F., fl 1921 (professor of textile industries, University of Leeds) 1
Board of Agriculture and Fisheries (1903-1919) 1
Boyazoglu, J G, fl1978 1
British Museum (Natural History) (1881-1991) 1
Campbell, John Douglas-Boswell, fl 1924 1
Ditchburn, R, fl1974 1
Edinburgh Museum of Science and Art (1864-1904) 1
Edinburgh Zoo. Edinburgh Zoological Gardens (1913) 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
Fortescue, Hugh, 1854-1932 (4th Earl Fortescue | politician and sportsman) 1
Greystoke Castle (1069-:) 1
Harvie-Brown, John Alexander, 1844-1916 (ornithologist) 1
Land, Roger Burton, 1940-1988 (animal geneticist, director, Institute of Animal Physiology and Genetics Research) 1
Lauvergne, J J, fl1978 1
Mackenzie, John T, fl1903 (Dunvegan, Skye) 1
Noble, Heatley, 1862-1922 (ornithologist) 1
Pocock, Reginald Innes, 1863-1947 (British zoologist) 1
Priestley, G C, fl1977 1
Sanderson, Harry, fl 1911 (wool manufacturer) 1
Scottish Home Department. formerly Board of Agriculture for Scotland then Department of Agriculture for Scotland (1928-1939) (1939-:) 1
University of Edinburgh (Scottish University) 1
University of Leeds Department of Textile Industries (1880-:) 1
Wiener, Gerald, 1926-2023 (geneticist; former deputy director of the Animal Breeding Research Organisation) 1
Wildman, A. Blakes, fl 1929 (Ackroyd Memorial Research Fellow, University of Leeds) 1
Woolliams, John A, fl1978 (scientist) 1
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