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| Description | Correspondence relating to enquiries and specimens. Some correspondence in French and German.
Correspondents include H. A. Walters, Taxidermist; H. P. Keatinge, Cairo School of Medicine; Anton Greiner Vetter; Warburton Pike; F. Kermode, Curator, Provincial Museum, Victoria, British Columbia; Percy M. Harris, Broad & Co Limited; Rowland Ward Ltd; A. Hunter Weston; N. Nassonou; T. A. Joyce, British Museum; Robert C. Knight; A. J. Klein; Herbert C. Robinson, Federated Malay States Museums; H. Ling Roth; Theobald Brothers; G. F. Kunz, American Museum of Natural History; W. H. Holmes, Smithsonian Institution, United States National Museum; A. R. W. Kerkhoven; F. A. Lucas, Director, American Museum of Natural History; Alois Ferdinand Hrdlička, Smithsonian Institution, United States National Museum; R. I. Pocock, Zoological Society of London; R. Killingly Gibbons; William B. Gibbins; Henry Peavot, Zoological Society of London; James D. Hazard, Victoria and Albert Museum. |