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 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 William Ridgeway, 06 March 1904
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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
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- Animals in Art 1
- Arabian Horses 1
- Art, Prehistoric 1
- Domestication 1
- Mongolian Pony 1