| Description | Includes correspondence from WP Jobson, Sabellum Trading Company Limited, relating to the possiblity of an expedition to Baffin Island to bring home Mr Pitchforth and obtain a whale skeleton, or to Jan Mayen Island; correspondence from Norman Charles Watt, Harris Whaling and Fishing Company Limited, relating to a Blue Whale skull (Balaenoptera musculus, Registration number 1953.11.5.2); correspondence with Dorothy Cowan, Armstrong College, Dove Marine Laboratory, relating to porpoise specimens sent to the British Museum (Natural History); correspondence with George Herbert Sherwood, Director of the American Museum of Natural History.
Related Natural History Museum specimen number is 1953.11.5.2 |