Osborn, Henry Fairfield, 1857-1935 (curator, American Museum of Natural History, New York)
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Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Letter to James Cossar Ewart from Carl Hagenbeck, 08 April 1902
Item
Identifier: Coll-14/9/8/30
Scope and Contents
Hagenbeck thanks Ewart for sending the photographs of 'Remus' and a black hybrid mare, along with an estimated cost for the pair. He asks if Ewart could send him the stallion which is for Henry Fairfield Osborn in New York, as he wishes to combine the shipping with some animals of his own. He adds that he now has a pair of Chapman's zebras, which he is sending from Hamburg to India. He would like to negotiate the sale of two Java ponies to Ewart in exchange for a stallion and two Shetland...
Dates:
08 April 1902
Letter to James Cossar Ewart from Henry Fairfield Osborn, 13 June 1902
Item
Identifier: Coll-14/9/8/44
Scope and Contents
Osborn states that the pony has arrived safely in New York. He will have the animal photographed for Ewart soon. He mentions not having read the papers by Mendel and Bateson. He announces that he will be writing to the Duke of Bedford to say that he would be interested in receiving the skeleton of one of his Russian horses if one should die. He also states that James Gidley is revising the species of their miocene, and he criticises Othniel Charles Marsh's phylogeny.
Dates:
13 June 1902
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