| Ref No | DF/ZOO/239/4/1/27 |
| Alt Ref No | DF239/4/1/27 |
| Acc No | 2026/2 |
| Title | Cetacea correspondence 1935 |
| Description | Cetacea general letters 1935/1 to 1935/128
Includes general enquirires; requests for identifications; offers of specimens; correspondence relating to strandings.
Formal acknowledgement of the donation of the cast of the lower jaws of a White Whale (1935/1) and the cast of the flipper of the Blue Whale (1935/71) to The Royal Scottish Museum.
Correspondence relating to the transfer of the type skeleton of Sibbald's Rorqual (Blue Whale) from the Municipal (Pickering) Museum, Hull, to the British Museum (Natural History), in exchange for articulating and mounting in its place the skeleton of a Right Whale from Hull University College (1935/4 to 1935/13, 1935/17 to 1935/22, 1935/33, 1935/61 to 1935/64).
Field notes on marine mammals seen incidentally during voyages over regular passenger lanes (1921-1933), SC Brooks, Department of Zoology, University of California (1935/25).
Correspondence with Basil Lubbock (throughout file).
Reports by observers of a whale seen in 1934 off the coast of Baffin Land (1935/46 to 1935/48).
List of Tursiops material at the Royal College of Surgeons (1935/120). |
| Date | 1935 |
| AccessStatus | Open |
| Held By | NHM Archives |
| Extent | 1 file |
| Level | File |
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Persons
| Code | PersonName | Dates | Source |
| CX6227 | Edward Gerrard & Sons; fl 1860-1946; Taxidermists | fl 1860-1946 | |
| PX280 | Cave; Sir; Alexander James Edward (1900-2001); Professor; Anatomist | 1900-2001 | Wikipedia, accessed 29/1/14 |
| CX5859 | Royal Scottish Museum; 1854- | 1854- | |