Ridgeway, Sir William, 1853-1926 (classicist and Disney professor of archaeology, University of Cambridge (England))
Person
Found in 10 Collections and/or Records:
Letter to James Cossar Ewart from Matthew Horace Hayes, 09 December 1902
Item
Identifier: Coll-14/9/8/111
Scope and Contents
Hayes enquires how he could get a copy of Ewart's paper about 'Callosities and the wartless pony'. He also would like to know whether the breed Equus caballus came directly from North America or through its ancestors pliohippus or protohippus. He mentions a paper that Professor William Ridgeway has sent him on the origin of the thoroughbred horse. He also invites Ewart to visit him for hunting.
Dates:
09 December 1902
Letter to James Cossar Ewart from Sir William Ridgeway, 02 November 1909
Item
Identifier: Coll-14/9/15/29
Scope and Contents
Ridgeway writes concerning the confusion over the provenance of the Ward's zebra skin to which Ridgeway refers in a paper for the Proceedings of the Zoological Society. He asks Ewart to confirm that the skin came from the Lombori Hills, as Rowland Ward are now asking Ridgeway to settle the matter.
Dates:
02 November 1909
Letter to James Cossar Ewart from Sir William Ridgeway, 04 December 1902
Item
Identifier: Coll-14/9/8/107
Scope and Contents
Ridgeway states that he is sending Ewart an abstract of his paper on the thoroughbred horse. He mentions his thoughts on the evolution of the Barb in North Africa and says how interested he was in Ewart's book The Penycuik Experiments.
Dates:
04 December 1902
Letter to James Cossar Ewart from Sir William Ridgeway, 09 December 1902
Item
Identifier: Coll-14/9/8/112
Scope and Contents
Ridgeway thanks Ewart for his comments about his own thoughts on the thoroughbred horse. Ridgeway hopes to have the paper printed by January 1903. He believes the Nisaean (or Caspian) breed owed its superiority and size to the crossing of Libyan blood with Asiatic. His paper also discusses the portrayal of small-headed horses portrayed by the cavemen of France. At present, his research revolves around the Norwegian pony with a stripe on its back. He is also greatly interested in Ewart's...
Dates:
09 December 1902
Letter to James Cossar Ewart from Sir William Ridgeway, 28 January 1903
Item
Identifier: Coll-14/9/9/9
Scope and Contents
Ridgeway states that he would very much appreciate a cliche of 'Matopo' (a zebra stallion). He adds that he has some blocks of the Kilimanjaro and Somali zebra that would be of interest to Ewart in his research on the zebra. He thinks that his knowledge of the Achaen horse would be of interest to Ewart, as he believes them to be the same as both the small horses of Northern Britain in the time of Caesar, and those of the Danube area. He discusses the spread of the horse into Africa. He...
Dates:
28 January 1903
Letter to James Cossar Ewart from Sir William Ridgeway, 05 March 1903
Item
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
Letter to James Cossar Ewart from Sir William Ridgeway, 05 November 1904
Item
Identifier: Coll-14/9/10/116
Scope and Contents
Ridgeway states that he will leave room in his paper for Ewart's new-found reference to the habitat of Ward's zebra. He seeks Ewart's advice on various unidentified horse skulls in the museum in Cambridge. He states that, as Bateson considers it unlikely that any Mendelian study on horses or other large mammals will take place in Cambridge, this could strengthen Ewart's case with the Board of Agriculture on establishing a research station. He mentions the skins of Ward's zebras which are...
Dates:
05 November 1904
Letter to James Cossar Ewart from Sir William Ridgeway, 03 December 1905
Item
Identifier: Coll-14/9/11/43
Scope and Contents
Ridgeway hopes that Ewart persuaded Scharff to obtain the Achill Island pony for the National Museum. He comments on the reviews of his recently published book The Origin and Influence of the Thoroughbred Horse. He enquires after Ewart's next paper on the tarpan, and asks for any information concerning the Rhind lectures at the University of Edinburgh. He comments that he has a lot of material on the origin of jewellery which could form a book or a course of...
Dates:
03 December 1905
Letter to James Cossar Ewart from William Ridgeway, 06 March 1904
Item
Identifier: Coll-14/9/10/27
Scope and Contents
Ridgeway offers his opinions on Ewart's 'excellent paper'. He states that he is sceptical as to the accuracy of cave drawings of horses, but is glad that Ewart expresses doubts as to the domestication of the horse. He recommends that Ewart provide explicitly the evidence of orseus remains from La Monthe, and is unsure about the claim that there are two different stocks in Arabian horses. He enquires as to the relative sizes of the ergots (growths) in Ewart's Mongolian pony and Przewalski's...
Dates:
06 March 1904
Letter to James Cossar Ewart from William Ridgeway, 20 April 1904
Item
Identifier: Coll-14/9/10/40
Scope and Contents
Ridgeway reports that he has been in Ireland examining the other objects found along with the three horse skulls in the 'crannog discovery'. He writes that he and Coffey have dated them between the eighth and tenth centuries. He mentions a letter from Walter Harris concerning his enquiries about callosities on the legs of horses in Tangier.
Dates:
20 April 1904
Filtered By
- Subject: Article X
Additional filters:
- Subject
- Prehistoric animals 5
- Horses 4
- Publications 4
- Animal Markings 3
- Art, Prehistoric 3
- Callosites 3
- Ponies 3
- Social Interaction 3
- Thoroughbred Horse 3
- Animals in Art 2
- Barb Horse 2
- Hides and Skins 2
- Horse Breeds 2
- Illustrations 2
- Mongolian Pony 2
- Museums 2
- Przewalski's Horse 2
- Skull 2
- Tarpan 2
- Ward's zebras 2
- Wild Ass, African 2
- Animals--Colour 1
- Arabian Horses 1
- Archaeological sites 1
- Cliché-verre 1
- Cross-Breeding 1
- Domestication 1
- Fjord horse 1
- Habitats 1
- Jewellery 1
- Lectures and Lecturing 1
- Mendel's law 1
- Nisean horse 1
- Physical Characteristics 1
- Pliohippus 1
- Reindeer 1
- Research Institutes 1
- Shetland Pony 1
- Societies and Clubs 1
- Stallions 1
- Taxidermy 1
- Zebras 1 + ∧ less
∨ more