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Ref NoDF/ZOO/236/12
Alt Ref NoDF236/12
Acc No2013/53
TitleCorrespondence between Walter Rothschild and Ernst Hartert, and a sketchbook of birds by Claudia Hartert
DescriptionFile contains: 1 sketchbook by Claudia Hartert for Ernst Hartert's 'On the birds of the islands of Aruba, Curacao and Bonaire', including robins in snow; letters from Walter Rothschild, including several written in German, from Algeria and other countries, relating to collecting but also commenting upon hotels, the weather, cost etc, some from Tring; 1 letter dated 1919 from the Military Permit Office, advising Hartert against travelling to visit his son's grave in France; 1 letter regarding the arrival of an okapi specimen that looked 'not very good in health', with sketch/ diagram, 15 Jun 1930

[It is unclear why this file has been catalogued into the Zoology department's archive; it may be better fitted to the Tring Museum collection]
Date1891-1932
AccessStatusOpen
Held ByNHM Archives
Extent1 file
LevelFile

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Persons
CodePersonNameDates
PX53Rothschild; Lionel Walter (1868-1937); 2nd Baron Rothschild of Tring; Ornithologist and Collector1868-1937
PX2123Hartert; Ernst Johann Otto (1859-1933); Tring Museum curator. Ornithologist and zoologist1859-1933
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