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Reindeer

 Subject

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

Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:

"In the Velvet", 1870s-1930s

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Identifier: Coll-1434/3431
Scope and Contents

Photograph of three reindeer summer browsing and, "in the velvet", which refers to their growing antlers, near Cape Prince of Wales, Alaska in the early 20th century.

Dates: 1870s-1930s
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Roslin Slide Collection

Letter from Thomas Gillespie, 1922

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Identifier: Coll-2099/2/2/3/1/1/5
Scope and Contents

Two letters from Thomas Gillespie to the Director of the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries, 17 January 1922, requesting a permit for importing a Reindeer bull from Norway.

Dates: 1922
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Royal Zoological Society of Scotland / Correspondence / 1920-1929 / 1922 / Animal Correspondence / Animal Arrival Correspondence

Letter to James Cossar Ewart from Sir William Ridgeway, 05 March 1903

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Identifier: Coll-14/9/9/29
Scope and Contents Ridgeway thanks Ewart for a block that he has lent him and says that he is at last returning Salensky's paper. He states that he is gratified to find that the tarpan is an original wild Equid and not a feral horse. He asks if Ewart has any data about Cossack ponies, which he supposes are more or less mixed like the Shetlands, and wonders if Ewart has any questions about Barbary horses for Walter Harris, with whom Ridgeway has been in touch. He then goes on to mention early Greek sources for...
Dates: 05 March 1903
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of James Cossar Ewart / Correspondence / Correspondence 1903