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Animals--Colour

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: Created For = TD,Use For = Coat colour of animals

Found in 147 Collections and/or Records:

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

 Item
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 / Roslin Institute Offprint Collection / Animal Breeding Research Organisation (ABRO)

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

 Item
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 / Roslin Institute Offprint Collection / Animal Breeding Research Organisation (ABRO)

Coat colour inheritance in Soay, Orkney Shetland sheep, 1974

 Item
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 / Roslin Institute Offprint Collection / Animal Breeding Research Organisation (ABRO)

Fleece colour in sheep and its inheritance, June 1980

 Item
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 / Roslin Institute Offprint Collection / Animal Breeding Research Organisation (ABRO)

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

 Item
Identifier: Coll-1434/150
Scope and Contents

Photograph of a Guernsey cow with typical broken colouring standing in the grass in the early 20th century.

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

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

 Item
Identifier: Coll-1434/3079
Scope and Contents

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
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Roslin Slide Collection

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

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Identifier: Coll-14/9/9/116
Scope and Contents

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

Letter to Barrington Balfour from Charles Dundas, 24 March 1900

 Item
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
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of James Cossar Ewart / Correspondence / Correspondence 1900

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