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Theodore Roosevelt’s secretary notifies Professor Osborn that he would like to have lunch with him and talk to him about his work on concealing coloration. If it is possible, he would like to talk with J. A. Allen as well that day.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-05-25
Theodore Roosevelt is working on the article, but is not sure if Henry Fairfield Osborn would care to publish it. Roosevelt is not doing much research in other books, because he would like it to be based on what he has observed. Roosevelt also believes there have been facts on the cougar that have been overlooked.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-05-08
Theodore Roosevelt believes that Carl Ethan Akeley should be satisfied with getting a bull elephant with tusks that weigh sixty pounds apiece while in Africa. Roosevelt is starting a study of concealing coloration and asks Henry Fairfield Osborn if the American Museum would be interested in publishing such a study. Roosevelt is disappointed that no one in the scientific community has questioned the absurdities in Abbott Handerson Thayer’s book on the subject. Roosevelt adds that he would like to come to the Museum in a few days to see Osborn and Frank M. Chapman.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-04-21
Theodore Roosevelt informs Henry Fairfield Osborn he will speak for the Throop Institution.
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1911-02-27
Theodore Roosevelt tells Henry Fairfield Osborn, President of the American Museum of Natural History, that he hopes he and Henry Fairfield Osborn can get Ham Fish into the museum. Roosevelt also encloses a letter of Fish’s. In the future, Roosevelt will take Osborn up on his invitation to get lunch and let Osborn show him the American Museum of Natural History.
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1915-03-01
Theodore Roosevelt will gladly do what Henry Fairfield Osborn has asked, and he requests more information about what Fish has done.
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1915-01-27
President Roosevelt thanks Henry Fairfield Osborn for the efforts he took to help Roosevelt edit his Romanes lecture. He comments on the topic of races and racial mixing, raised by several prominent anthropologists, as well as Osborn himself. Roosevelt is somewhat intimidated by the importance that Osborn has said that his lecture will carry.
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1908-12-21
President Roosevelt thanks Henry Fairfield Osborn for the notes and suggestions, and is sure that he will incorporate them into his lecture. He wishes that Osborn and his wife, Lucretia Thatcher Perry Osborn could attend an upcoming gathering, but is glad that two of Osborn’s children, Fairfield Osborn and Josephine Adams Osborn, will be there. Roosevelt suggests several options of people who could deliver Osborn’s address on conservation, including Senator Knute Nelson of Minnesota and Senator William Edgar Borah of Idaho. He suggests writing to Chief Forester Gifford Pinchot for further suggestions. Roosevelt understands what Osborn says about Carl Ethan Akeley’s trip, and says that if he can meet him without disrupting his own safari plans, he would like to do so.
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1908-12-17
President Roosevelt regrets that Henry Fairfield Osborn cannot attend the African hunters’ dinner, and provides the dates of other dinners he could attend. Roosevelt sends a rough draft of his Romanes Lecture for Osborn’s professional critique.
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1908-11-11
President Roosevelt invites Henry Fairfield Osborn to a dinner which will be attended by Harry Johnston, William T. Hornaday, Edgar Alexander Mearns, and several African hunters. He also asks whether Osborn’s wife would prefer to come to the Supreme Court dinner, a diplomatic reception, or an army and navy reception, followed by dinner.
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1908-11-06
President Roosevelt asks Henry Fairfield Osborn if he can send a copy of The Royal Natural History, but only if it is not asking too much.
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1908-08-03
President Roosevelt returns four books to Henry Fairfield Osborn, and requests that he send An Introduction to the Study of Mammals Living and Extinct by Richard Lydekker and William Henry Flower. Roosevelt thanks Osborn for all his help.
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1908-07-31
President Roosevelt asks Henry Fairfield Osborn to send The Book of Antelopes by Philip Lutley Sclater and Oldfield Thomas. He appreciates what Osborn said about Edgar Alexander Mearns and the interest Osborn is taking in Roosevelt’s safari planning.
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1908-07-23
President Roosevelt returns materials that were very helpful, and asks if Henry Fairfield Osborn has either Big Game Shooting and Travels in Southeast Africa by F. R. N. Findlay, or Fauna of South Africa by William Lutley Sclater. Roosevelt enjoyed a recent luncheon with Osborn and his family.
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1908-07-20
President Roosevelt urges Professor Osborn to accept the proposal in question, and invites the professor and his wife to dinner.
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1906-12-04
Vice President Roosevelt requests the presence of Professor Osborn for lunch on September 15. Roosevelt’s children have been ill and he is unsure if his wife will return from the Adirondacks by then. If Osborn would like to come on the 16th with his boys, Roosevelt could show him the mountain lion and he believes that Mrs. Roosevelt may consent by then to letting Osborn have it for the museum.
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1901-08-27
Assistant Secretary of the Navy Roosevelt thanks Henry Fairfield Osborn for the note and will look up the article in Science. Roosevelt believes his friend C. Hart Merriam has gone too far in announcing two new species of mountain lion. Roosevelt’s sister has enjoyed being with Osborn and the others at Woods Holl.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1897-09-14
In a letter to Henry Fairfield Osborn, Assistant Secretary of the Navy Roosevelt criticizes the taxonomical work of C. Hart Merriam. Roosevelt specifically notes Merriam’s taxonomical splitting of various groups of wapiti, wolves, and coyotes.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1897-05-18
Theodore Roosevelt suggests that William Beebe get a Ford car to travel to hunting grounds from his research station in Guyana.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1916-05-03
Theodore Roosevelt considers himself a “scientific layman” and appreciates the pamphlets.
1907-08-07