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Callosites

 Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Scope Note: Created For = NAHSTE,Use For = Chestnuts, warts, growths

Found in 6 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, 28 April 1903

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Identifier: Coll-14/9/9/47
Scope and Contents Ridgeway thanks Ewart for allowing him to reference Ewart's information concerning the Ward's zebra in his forthcoming work, but states he will be careful not to give away too much information about Ewart's own work before he has published his findings. He reminisces about the introduction of Clydesdale stallions to his native Kildare, and the inferior offspring which cross-breeding with the local mares produced. He encourages Ewart not to lose heart in the face of criticism over 'the...
Dates: 28 April 1903

Letter to James Cossar Ewart from Sir William Ridgeway, 21 June 1904

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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

Letter to James Cossar Ewart from Sir William Ridgeway, 04 June 1905

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Identifier: Coll-14/9/11/10
Scope and Contents Ridgeway mentions Lydekker and Lankester's work on the preorbital part of the skulls of race horses and their theory that the 'blood-horse' derives from the Indian Equus sivalensis. Ridgeway believes that it is more likely to derive from Africa and Equus stenosis and asks Ewart if he has noticed any preorbital depressions in the skulls of Celtic ponies, as this could support the argument that the Celtic pony is a separate species or...
Dates: 04 June 1905

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

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