Letter to James Cossar Ewart from Sir William Ridgeway

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Letter to James Cossar Ewart from Sir William Ridgeway stating that he would very much appreciate a cliche of 'Matopo', Cossar Ewart's zebra. He adds that he has some blocks of the Kilimanjaro zebra and Somali zebra that would be of interest to him in his research of the zebra. He thinks that his knowledge of the Achaen horse would be of interest to him, as he believes them to be the same as both the small horses of Northern Britain in the time of Caesar, and those of the Danube area. He discusses the spread of the horse into Africa. He agrees that the Somali zebra and the North African horse are probably strands of the same species.

Regarding the assertions of Louis Capitan and Henri Breuil regarding two breeds of horses shown at the Combarelles caves, he has serious reservations. He elaborates his theory by analyzing the physical characteristics of the horses. He mentions a paper by Salensky which he would like to borrow. Matthew Horace Hayes has written to him about it.

• Academic Writing
• Caves
• Horses
• Physical Characteristics
• Professional Criticism
• Research
• Species
• Zebras

• Breuil | Henri Edouard Prosper | 1877-1961 | French archaeologist, palaeontologist and cleric
• Capitan | Louis | 1854-1929 | French doctor and historian
• Ewart | James Cossar | 1851-1933 | zoologist and professor of natural history, University of Edinburgh
• Ridgeway | Sir | William | 1853-1926 | classicist and Disney professor of archaeology, Cambridge (England)

• Africa, North
• Danube River Valley
• France
• Kilimanjaro (Tanzania)