Soay sheep
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: Created For = TD
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Letter to James Cossar Ewart from Henry John Elwes, 23 November 1921
Item
Identifier: Coll-14/9/27/8
Scope and Contents
Elwes writes that the Zoological Society no longer wishes to keep his three-year old Soay ram, and he wonders whether the Edinburgh Zoological Society might like him. He asks whether Ewart knows of anyone who will make him cloth made from Moorit wool.
Dates:
23 November 1921
Letter to James Cossar Ewart from Reginald Innes Pocock, 04 October 1917
Item
Identifier: Coll-14/9/23/9
Scope and Contents
Pocock writes that the only specimens of long and fat-tailed sheep that he knows of in England are at Woburn. He is afraid Ewart will never get hold of an Ovis poli or Ovis ammon, as the Zoological Society has only had one in the course of its history and they are practically unobtainable. He asks whether Ewart could make do with Ovis vignei, as all the Asiatic sheep are very close. He offers to run a Vignei ram...
Dates:
04 October 1917