Skip to main content

Sheep

 Subject

Staff Only
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: Created For = NAHSTE

Found in 665 Collections and/or Records:

Letter to James Cossar Ewart from Sir Claud Alexander, 31 August 1912

 Item
Identifier: Coll-14/9/18/57
Scope and Contents

Alexander writes concerning transport arrangements for the sheep he is sending to Ewart. He also offers to send him a piebald ram lamb.

Dates: 31 August 1912
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of James Cossar Ewart / Correspondence / Correspondence 1912

Letter to James Cossar Ewart from Sir Claud Alexander, 24 June 1913

 Item
Identifier: Coll-14/9/19/29
Scope and Contents

Alexander writes that he would be glad to have a copy of Ewart's 'sheep paper'. He will be rounding up the ponies shortly and will try to get a photograph when they are in the yard.

Dates: 24 June 1913
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of James Cossar Ewart / Correspondence / Correspondence 1913

Letter to James Cossar Ewart from Sir Claud Alexander, 10 June 1914

 Item
Identifier: Coll-14/9/20/11
Scope and Contents

Alexander writes that he doesn't have very many old sheep but plenty of piebalds and shearling rams for 30 shillings each as well as a black ewe which interested Elwes. He asks Ewart to let him know which sheep he wants as he must send all his spare stock to market due to the drought.

Dates: 10 June 1914
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of James Cossar Ewart / Correspondence / Correspondence 1914

Letter to James Cossar Ewart from Sir Claud Alexander, 22 June 1914

 Item
Identifier: Coll-14/9/20/15
Scope and Contents

Alexander writes concerning arrangements for transporting sheep to Ewart. He tells Ewart how many sheep will be coming and also offers him his hybrid Urial flock.

Dates: 22 June 1914
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of James Cossar Ewart / Correspondence / Correspondence 1914

Letter to James Cossar Ewart from Sir Claud Alexander, 08 November 1911

 Item
Identifier: Coll-14/9/17/72
Scope and Contents

Alexander asks whether Ewart still has the Przewalski's colt, as his own colt is ill. He reports that his various sheep flocks are looking their best, and that he wishes Ewart would try on Mendelian lines to get rid of the wool on tame sheep by crossing with wild ones.

Dates: 08 November 1911
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of James Cossar Ewart / Correspondence / Correspondence 1911

Letter to James Cossar Ewart from Sir Claud Alexander, 11 November 1911

 Item
Identifier: Coll-14/9/17/75
Scope and Contents

Alexander reports that his colt is dead. He believes he has enough evidence to prove that in the matter of wool, sheep are not Mendelian, and provides details from his own breeding experiments.

Dates: 11 November 1911
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of James Cossar Ewart / Correspondence / Correspondence 1911

Letter to James Cossar Ewart from Sir Claud Alexander, 02 September 1911

 Item
Identifier: Coll-14/9/17/50
Scope and Contents

Alexander asks whether Ewart still wants to purchase some sheep from him, and makes suggestions for shipping arrangements.

Dates: 02 September 1911
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of James Cossar Ewart / Correspondence / Correspondence 1911

Letter to James Cossar Ewart from Spencer Ewart, 17 July 1914

 Item
Identifier: Coll-14/9/20/22
Scope and Contents

Spencer Ewart thanks Ewart for his paper on the wild ancestors on the domestic sheep and writes that he is returning the paper applying to be made a Fellow of the Zoological Society of Scotland.

Dates: 17 July 1914
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of James Cossar Ewart / Correspondence / Correspondence 1914

Letter to James Cossar Ewart from William C. Miller, 25 November 1931

 Item
Identifier: Coll-14/9/37/8
Scope and Contents

Miller congratulates Ewart on his 80th birthday and writes that he considers it an honour to be able to follow the work which Ewart began with sheep, particularly the Shetland, and that he is 'continuously and forcibly reminded that you have set a high standard for those of us who are engaged in sheep and wool work to emulate.'

Dates: 25 November 1931
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of James Cossar Ewart / Correspondence / Correspondence 1931

Letter to James Cossar Ewart from William Gordon, 27 September 1913

 Item
Identifier: Coll-14/9/19/48
Scope and Contents

Gordon hopes that the ewe and spotted lamb arrived safely in Leith. He provides details about the price his lambs fetched in Aberdeen. He writes that he is going on with the excavation of the Brough and has found some stone implements as well as the bones of horses, cattle and sheep, which he offers to send to Ewart for investigation.

Dates: 27 September 1913
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of James Cossar Ewart / Correspondence / Correspondence 1913