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Ref NoDF/ZOO/232/2/3
Alt Ref NoDF232/2/3
Acc No2025/24
TitleLydekker, Richard: correspondence, 1899-1913
DescriptionCorrespondents include:
Walter Rothschild
G. M. Norrie
Knud Anderson, British Museum (Natural History)
A. Forbes
C. E. Fagan, British Museum (Natural History)
A. Marsden (Chief of Customs, Mombasa)
Everard P. Corbet
Clive Wigram, Buckingham Palace on behalf of his Majesty the King
James B. Doake
J. W. Brookes
Robert K. Nabours, Kansas State Agricultural College
Maurice Smith
M. Bedford, Duchess of Bedford, Woburn Abbey
C. R. Louder
Major H. M. Biddulph
Leonard Bethell
Henry Platt
A. Yale Massey
N. Nassonou
Henry J. Allen Turner
J. W. Dracopoli
Ludwig Freund
Colonel H. Appleton
A. Grey
Major Stevenson Hamilton
George Pereira
C. W Woodhouse
A. W. Hunt
A. Ghidini, Musuem Bastions, Geneva
C. Boden Kloss (including three specimen labels)
[Lutz] Heck, Actien-Verein des zoologischen Gartens zu Berlin
Malcolm Portal Hyatt, Nigeria
C. J. Daeins

Includes a Smithsonian press statement on the remains of extinct camels and horses found in Alaska and the Yukon, 21 June 1913.

Some correspondence has photographs included. Some correspondence in French and German.
Date1899-1913
AccessStatusOpen
Held ByNHM Archives
Extent1 file
LevelFile

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