Lankester, Edwin Ray, Sir, 1847-1929 (zoologist and professor of zoology, University College London)
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Letter to James Cossar Ewart from Sir Edwin Ray Lankester, 20 June [1905]
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Identifier: Coll-14/9/11/14
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Lankester writes that he has heard from Ewart's return from South America from Lord Arthur Cecil. He asks if he may have the paper Ewart promised him on the chestnuts of the horse being a question of gland structure, to be published in the Quarterly Journal of Microscopical Science. He is able to give Ewart space to publish the plates he showed him illustrating the later development of the horse embryo. The year is not written on the letter, but as...
Dates:
20 June [1905]
Letter to James Cossar Ewart from Sir William Ridgeway, 04 June 1905
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Identifier: Coll-14/9/11/10
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Ridgeway mentions Lydekker and Lankester's work on the preorbital part of the skulls of race horses and their theory that the 'blood-horse' derives from the Indian Equus sivalensis. Ridgeway believes that it is more likely to derive from Africa and Equus stenosis and asks Ewart if he has noticed any preorbital depressions in the skulls of Celtic ponies, as this could support the argument that the Celtic pony is a separate species or...
Dates:
04 June 1905
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