PREFACE IX 



made for me in Florence the very careful measurements 

 of the chariot from Thebes ; whilst Sir Ernest Clarke, M.A., 

 St John's College, Secretary to the Royal Agricultural 

 Society, has supplied me with several valuable notes which 

 I have embodied, and has also aided me in obtaining the 

 use of blocks and photographs. Dr M. R. James, the 

 Provost of King's College, Cambridge, and Director of the 

 Fitzwilliam Museum, pointed out to me the drawings of 

 Stradanus, reproduced in this work. I had the advantage 

 of talking over many points in my book with the late Captain 

 Maurice H. Hayes, the well-known author of The Points of the 

 Horse, etc. Mr G. P. Bidder, M.A., Trinity College, long 

 resident at Naples, and through him Mr E. Neville Rolfe, 

 M.A., H.B.M. Consul for southern Italy, have given me 

 much valuable information respecting the horses of Naples 

 and southern Italy. I am also indebted for very important 

 references or for help in various other ways to the following: 

 Mr A. A. Bevan, M.A., Lord Almoner's Professor of Arabic 

 and Fellow of Trinity College; Mr H. M. Chadwick, M.A., 

 Fellow of Clare College; Mr J. G. Frazer, M.A., F.B.A., 

 Hon. D.C.L, Hon. LL.D., Hon. D.Litt., Fellow of Trinity 

 College ; Dr C. S. Myers, Gonville and Caius College ; Rev. 

 Canon Greenwell, F.R.S., D.C.L. ; Rev. T. T. Gray, M.A., 

 Senior Fellow of Trinity College, Dublin; Mr J. Bass 

 Mullinger, M.A., Librarian of St John's College ; Mr R. C. 

 Bosanquet, M.A., Trinity College, Director of the British 

 School at Athens; Mr George Coffey, M.A., Keeper of the 

 Museum of the Royal Irish Academy; Mr A. W. Mair, M.A., 

 Professor of Greek in the University of Edinburgh, and 

 Fellow of Gonville and Caius College ; Mr Carl Hagenbeck, of 

 Hamburg (for photographs); Mr C. W. Hawes, M.A., Trinity 

 College (for the use of photographs); Dr J. Venn, F.R.S. , 

 President of Gonville and Caius College ; Mr J. A. Venn, B.A., 

 Trinity College (for photographs) ; Dr M. M. Hartog, Professor 

 of Natural History in Queen's College, Cork; Mr Cecil 

 Bendall, M.A., Professor of Sanskrit in the University of 

 Cambridge, late Fellow of Gonville and Caius College; Mr 

 Harold Littledale, M.A., Trinity College, Dublin, Professor of 



