Notes and Comments 
horse was only about ten hands high; that 
is to say, the height of an average Shetland 
pony. Has the Professor, it may be asked, 
ever seen the series of cannon-bones of 
fossil horses from Ilford and Brighton in 
the collection of the British Museum 
(Natural History)? If not, they may be 
commended to his attention, as they cer- 
tainly did not belong to animals of only 
ten hands in height. 
“Since the Professor wrote, a suggestion 
has been made that the blood-horse may 
trace its origin to ancextinct Indian species.” 
For our own part we should like to say 
that, while we hold no brief either for 
the Professor or his eritic, we shall of 
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course be willing to hear both sides of 
the argument, and if Professor Ridgeway 
wishes to publish any answer to the above 
criticism he will find a reasonable space 
at his disposal in these columns. 
We" 
WE have received from Ghiza a copy of 
ie the Guide to the Zoological 
Egyptian Gardens there. More than once 
L090: we have reproduced photo- 
graphs of the animals which thrive under 
Captain Flower’s care, and hope from time 
to time to have other opportunities of giving 
further illustrations of the inmates at the 
Ghiza Gardens. 
“When the trees are leafless 
And the fields are bare.” 
