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Fibre shedding and fibre-follicle relationships in the fleeces of experimental Wiltshire Horn x Scottish Blackface sheep crosses, 1962

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Identifier: Coll-1362/1/140
Scope and Contents

Located in A.B.R.O. Reprints 1962 - 1964. Volume 3 of 19.

Dates: 1962
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Heterosis in crossbred hill sheep, October 1963

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Identifier: Coll-1362/1/152
Scope and Contents

Located in A.B.R.O. Reprints 1962 - 1964. Volume 3 of 19.

Dates: October 1963
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Letter to Innes Mackay, solicitors, from John Fraser, 23 July 1902

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Identifier: Coll-14/9/8/61
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Fraser describes the birth of a wild lamb (possibly a sheep/goat hybrid) on the Inverinate estate, and his attempts to capture it to discover its gender. He also thanks the solicitors for their information regarding the boundary of the salmon fishing in Loch Duich belonging to Sir Keith Fraser, and mentions problems with poachers on the estate.

Dates: 23 July 1902
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Letter to James Cossar Ewart from Aldred F. Barker, 21 September 1921

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Identifier: Coll-14/9/27/6
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Barker writes that he finds it impossible to get up to Scotland. He hopes that the Research Association is getting good photographs of the parent sheep to contrast with the crossbred sheep, as well as samples of wool illustrating the rate of growth.

Dates: 21 September 1921
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Letter to James Cossar Ewart from Aldred F. Barker, 06 February 1922

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Identifier: Coll-14/9/28/3
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Barker writes that he envisages the work being subdivided into breeding and manufacturing, and that he is willing to help Ewart in whatever way he can. He intends to continue with the investigations into the possibilities of all the English wools, but he is happy at any time to provide Ewart with accounts of the Herdwick, 'Musk ox' and Siberian/Shetland.

Dates: 06 February 1922
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Letter to James Cossar Ewart from Aldred F. Barker, 13 July 1925

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Identifier: Coll-14/9/31/8
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Barker asks Ewart to send him the skins of the Shetland and the Siberian-Shetland cross and seeks permission to mention Ewart's work and forthcoming book in an article he is writing for The Graphic. He also asks if Ewart would be willing to talk about the exhibits at Bradford the following week.

Dates: 13 July 1925
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Letter to James Cossar Ewart from Aldred F. Barker, 23 August 1928

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Identifier: Coll-14/9/34/5
Scope and Contents

Barker writes that he has recently taken on 13 Peruvian-Wensleydale sheep crosses and reports that the wool is excellent. He hopes that Ewart will soon be quite fit again to continue with his book on sheep and wool as 'no one else can record what you can record.'

Dates: 23 August 1928
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Letter to James Cossar Ewart from Colonel George A. Oliphant, 11 February 1910

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Identifier: Coll-14/9/16/3
Scope and Contents Oliphant asks if Ewart himself can't manage to carry ouy the experiment with the female foal out of the Przewalski's mare by the Highland pony and a hybrid male by a Przewalski's stallion out of a pony mare, as space is getting cramped at Woburn. He reports that they are going through with the experiment crossing Nepalese unicorn sheep with Southdown sheep, and they propose to do a similar experiment with Grevy's zebras and French Giant donkeys. The Duke of Bedford also asks Ewart's advice...
Dates: 11 February 1910
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Letter to James Cossar Ewart from Dalgety and Company Ltd, 04 August 1925

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Identifier: Coll-14/9/31/11
Scope and Contents

The company writes that it would be wise for Ewart to find out whether Falkiner wants 'the old type' of Soay sheep or the 'improved Soay-Siberian sheep' before proceeding with the arrangements for transporting the sheep.

Dates: 04 August 1925
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

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Names
Elwes, Henry John, 1846-1922 (traveller and botanist) 11
Lort, G.P, fl 1910 7
Alexander, Sir Claud, fl 1910-1930 6
Crichton-Stuart, John, 4th Marquess of Bute, 1881-1947 (Scottish peer) 5
Barker, Aldred F., fl 1921 (professor of textile industries, University of Leeds) 4
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Hancock, J L, fl1953 3
British Museum (Natural History) (1881-1991) 2
Oliphant, George A., Colonel, fl 1898-1910 (employee on Woburn estate, Bedfordshire (England)) 2
Alipore Zoological Gardens. Calcutta/Kolkata Zoo (1876-:) 1
Bateson, William, 1861-1926 (English biologist and professor of genetics, University of Cambridge) 1
Blackface Sheep Breeders' Association (1901-:) 1
Board of Agriculture and Fisheries (1903-1919) 1
Bowerman, H R L, fl1963 1
Buttle, H R L, fl1964 1
Carruthers, William, 1830-1922 (botanist, Keeper of the Department of Botany, British Museum) 1
Carter, H B, fl1955 1
Cecil, Arthur, Lord, 1851-1913 (captain) 1
Cowan, Alex, fl 1911 (Dalhousie Castle, Bonnyrigg (Scotland)) 1
Dalgety plc. Dalgety and Company Ltd (1846-2005) 1
Dennis, J.V, fl. 1922 (Korongee, Warncoort) 1
Donald, Hugh Paterson, 1908-1989 (geneticist and director of Animal Breeding Research Organisation) 1
Falkiner, Otway Rothwell, 1874-1961 (Australian sheep breeder) 1
Fraser, John, fl1902 1
Fraser, Keith, Sir, 1867-1935 (landowner and army captain) 1
Gordon, William, fl 1913 1
Greystoke Castle (1069-:) 1
Innes & Mackay (1874-) 1
Jacobs, Patricia A, fl1966 1
Jardin des Plantes (1626-) 1
Mackay, William, fl1902 (solicitor) 1
Mendel, Johann Gregor, 1822-1884 (Austrian biologist and botanist) 1
Pocock, Reginald Innes, 1863-1947 (British zoologist) 1
Portal, Maurice Raymond, Major, 1870-1955 (Holywell, Swanmore, Hampshire) 1
Read, J L, fl1963 1
Russell, Herbrand Arthur, 11th Duke of Bedford, 1858-1940 1
Russell, William St Clair, 1921-fl 1962 1
Slee, John, fl1959 1
University of Leeds Department of Textile Industries (1880-:) 1
Wallace, Robert, Professor, 1853-1939 (professor of agriculture and rural economy) 1
Woburn Abbey 1
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