Ridgeway, Sir William, 1853-1926 (classicist and Disney professor of archaeology, University of Cambridge (England))
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Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Letter to James Cossar Ewart from Sir William Ridgeway, 31 May 1904
Item
Identifier: Coll-14/9/10/60
Scope and Contents
Ridgeway thanks Ewart for the critique of his manuscript and offers some opinions concerning the history and characteristics of the pony Tarpan redivivus and elaborates on prehistoric horses. He makes some remarks about editorial and spelling matters and discusses the sounds made by the Kiang and Onager ponies.
Dates:
31 May 1904
Letter to James Cossar Ewart from Sir William Ridgeway, 21 June 1904
Item
Identifier: Coll-14/9/10/68
Scope and Contents
Ridgeway discusses some of Ewart's critiques of the manuscript of his book. He reports that he is troubled about whether he is justified in stating that that the hock callosities are frequently absent in North African horses and ponies and asks Ewart to check a French reference from the work of Sanson. He asks Ewart for the loan of some illustrative blocks. He posits that changes in colour of horses and cattle could be due to domestication, and thanks Ewart for correcting some of his zebra...
Dates:
21 June 1904
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- Animals--Colour 1
- Callosites 1
- Cattle 1
- Domestication 1
- Horse Breeds 1
- Horses 1
- Illustrations 1
- Kiang 1
- Nomenclature 1
- Onager 1
- Physical Characteristics 1
- Prehistoric animals 1
- Tarpan 1
- Zebras 1
- Zoology, Classification 1 + ∧ less
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