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
- Creation: 13 June 1902
Creator
Language of Materials
English
Conditions Governing Access
Open.
Extent
1 leaf
Physical Location
CLX-A-1135
Creator
Subject
- Bateson, William, 1861-1926 (English biologist and professor of genetics, University of Cambridge) (Person)
- Gidley, James William, 1866-1931 (American vertebrae palaeontologist) (Person)
- Marsh, Othniel Charles, 1831-1899 (American palaeontologist) (Person)
- Mendel, Johann Gregor, 1822-1884 (Austrian biologist and botanist) (Person)
- Osborn, Henry Fairfield, 1857-1935 (curator, American Museum of Natural History, New York) (Person)
- Russell, Herbrand Arthur, 11th Duke of Bedford, 1858-1940 (Person)
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