Ref No | DF/ZOO/236/12 |
Alt Ref No | DF236/12 |
Acc No | 2013/53 |
Title | Correspondence between Walter Rothschild and Ernst Hartert, and a sketchbook of birds by Claudia Hartert |
Description | File 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] |
Date | 1891-1932 |
AccessStatus | Open |
Held By | NHM Archives |
Extent | 1 file |
Level | File |
Show related Persons records.
Persons
Code | PersonName | Dates |
PX53 | Rothschild; Lionel Walter (1868-1937); 2nd Baron Rothschild of Tring; Ornithologist and Collector | 1868-1937 |
PX2123 | Hartert; Ernst Johann Otto (1859-1933); Tring Museum curator. Ornithologist and zoologist | 1859-1933 |