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Theodore Roosevelt sends C. Hart Merriam a list of deer specimens. Roosevelt had arranged for the skulls to be kept with the skins and is sorry that this was not done. The specimens were obtained twenty miles from Frederick, Oklahoma.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1905-05-31
Theodore Roosevelt is interested in the squirrels and makes observations about their size and coloration.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1905-05-18
Theodore Roosevelt is interested in all of the skins C. Hart Merriam sent. He has seen squirrels larger and lighter than the pine squirrel Merriam shared with him. Roosevelt would like to be reminded what kind of vole he sent Merriam from Yellowstone Park.
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1905-05-15
President Roosevelt defends James H. Monteath, George H. Bingenheimer, and Charles E. Burton against C. Hart Merriam’s doubts regarding their fitness to hold office.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-03-19
President Roosevelt has heard good things about James H. Monteath and requests C. Hart Merriam’s opinion.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-03-14
President Roosevelt is enjoying his time in Yellowstone with John Burroughs and encloses a skin and skull of a male microtus with measurements. Roosevelt encourages Dr. Merriam to “write the great monumental work on the mammals of North America.”
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1903-04-22
President Roosevelt requests that Dr. Merriam report on the condition of Native American tribes and their treatment by government agents in the West.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1903-03-31
President Roosevelt has appointed Dr. Merriam to the Board of Scientific Surveys that will estimate the cost of a comprehensive scientific survey of the Philippine Islands.
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1903-03-09
Roosevelt thanks C. Hart Merriam for the pamphlets. Roosevelt expresses the great time Ted Roosevelt had with Merriam.
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1902-05-13
Theodore Roosevelt tells C. Hart Merriam that the five bobcat skulls are Merriam’s to keep. Merriam has given Roosevelt the information he wanted about deer. Roosevelt wishes that he had known that Merriam wanted blacktail deer specimens. He could have gotten these from the Little Missouri.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1901-05-29
Theodore Roosevelt asks C. Hart Merriam if he has received the skulls, skins, and Roosevelt’s note on them. Roosevelt is eager to send his article on the hunt to Scribner’s.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1901-05-04
Vice President Roosevelt will quote five or six of C. Hart Merriam’s lines in his article. Roosevelt has found his twelfth skull and asks if he should send it onto Merriam. Roosevelt would also like to know if the skulls should be kept in the skins or not. Roosevelt asks Merriam what he found out about the bobcat skulls.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1901-05-06
Theodore Roosevelt has sent the missing mountain lion skull to C. Hart Merriam. This was the only cougar Roosevelt shot in the head, “I hung over a cliff by moonlight and brained it as it lay on a ledge below me.” Roosevelt used a 30-30 Winchester to shoot the mountain lion. He fears it will be of little use except for the teeth. Roosevelt asks Merriam for any pamphlets about deer in the U.S.
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1901-05-14
Theodore Roosevelt writes to C. Hart Merriam about the meaning of the word “species.” He feels the use of the word is simply a question of terminology. Roosevelt also recalls an argument between himself and Merriam about the connection between coyotes and wolves. Roosevelt also anticipates a delivery of lynx skins and skulls, as well as cougar skulls.
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1901-04-08
Theodore Roosevelt tells C. Hart Merriam to have Tarleton Hoffman Bean communicate with him. Roosevelt is also glad to help Charles W. Dabney, but is not sure if he knows a regent on the California coast. In a handwritten postscript, Roosevelt asks whether “roosevelti” is merely a synonym for “occidentalis,” meaning his namesake Roosevelt elk is the same as the Olympic Wapiti.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1899-02-22
Theodore Roosevelt wants to make sure that he says good-bye to C. Hart Merriam. Merriam is one of the men in Washington, D.C., that Roosevelt most hates to leave.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1898-05-10
Theodore Roosevelt wants to know any information on Charles James Bell.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1897-12-29
Theodore Roosevelt asks C. Hart Merriam for extra copies of the pamphlet. Roosevelt is also discussing the Smithsonian matter with ex-Secretary of State Foster and ex-Senator Henderson.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1897-12-18
Theodore Roosevelt is proud to have a subspecies of elk, “the noblest game animal of America,” named after him. Roosevelt would like to have lunch with C. Hart Merriam to discuss the Smithsonian matter. Roosevelt is also returning Merriam’s manuscript, in which he found little to correct.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1897-12-09
Theodore Roosevelt lets C. Hart Merriam know that the enclosure explains itself.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1897-12-02