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 lectures. He believes that Osborn went to the wrong place in Mexico to look for striped and pied dun horses, as he has heard different information from a local farmer and from Hans Gadow.
Dates
- 03 December 1905
Creator
Language of Materials
English
Physical Description
2 leaves
Conditions Governing Access
Open.
Biographical / Historical
The forthcoming article which Ridgeway mentions is likely to be Ewart's 'The Tarpan and its Relationship with Wild and Domestic Horses (Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, 26: 7-21), abridged in Nature, 74: 113-115 (1906).
Extent
From the Series: 4 boxes
Physical Location
CLX-A-1136
Physical Description
2 leaves
- Animal Markings
- Animals--Colour
- Article
- Dublin Science and Art Museum (1878-:)
- Gadow, Hans Friedrich, 1855-1928 (German ornithologist)
- Horses
- Jewellery
- Lectures and Lecturing
- Museums
- Osborn, Henry Fairfield, 1857-1935 (curator, American Museum of Natural History, New York)
- Ponies
- Publications
- Ridgeway, Sir William, 1853-1926 (classicist and Disney professor of archaeology, University of Cambridge (England))
- Scharff, Richard Francis, 1858-1934 (naturalist, keeper of the Natural History Collections, Science and Art Museum, Dublin)
- Tarpan
- University of Edinburgh (Scottish University)
Repository Details
Part of the University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections Repository
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Centre for Research Collections
University of Edinburgh Main Library
George Square
Edinburgh EH8 9LJ Scotland
+44(0)131 650 8379
is-crc@ed.ac.uk