Ridgeway, Sir William, 1853-1926 (classicist and Disney professor of archaeology, University of Cambridge (England))
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Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
Letter to James Cossar Ewart from Matthew Horace Hayes, 09 December 1902
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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, 05 March 1903
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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, 03 December 1905
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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
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- Jewellery 1
- Lectures and Lecturing 1
- Museums 1
- Pliohippus 1
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- Reindeer 1
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