Ridgeway, Sir William, 1853-1926 (classicist and Disney professor of archaeology, University of Cambridge (England))
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Found in 5 Collections and/or Records:
Letter to James Cossar Ewart from Sir William Ridgeway, 28 January 1903
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Identifier: Coll-14/9/9/9
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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 November 1904
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Identifier: Coll-14/9/10/116
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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
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Identifier: Coll-14/9/11/43
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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
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Identifier: Coll-14/9/10/27
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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
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Identifier: Coll-14/9/10/40
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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
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- Horses 4
- Art, Prehistoric 2
- Callosites 2
- Museums 2
- Prehistoric animals 2
- Skull 2
- Social Interaction 2
- Animal Markings 1
- Animals in Art 1
- Animals--Colour 1
- Arabian Horses 1
- Archaeological sites 1
- Cliché-verre 1
- Domestication 1
- Habitats 1
- Hides and Skins 1
- Horse Breeds 1
- Illustrations 1
- Jewellery 1
- Lectures and Lecturing 1
- Mendel's law 1
- Mongolian Pony 1
- Physical Characteristics 1
- Ponies 1
- Przewalski's Horse 1
- Publications 1
- Research Institutes 1
- Stallions 1
- Tarpan 1
- Ward's zebras 1
- Wild Ass, African 1
- Zebras 1 + ∧ less
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