Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to George Cabot Lodge
President Roosevelt discusses two articles by German scientists from the Globus, which he is returning to George Cabot Lodge. He misspoke when he referred to the tertiary age before. He is interested in the idea that there may have been some early form of man may have existed in Australia more than four thousand years ago. Roosevelt takes issue with the idea that in the late tertiary period, there was a land bridge between Asia and Australia. He cites what happened with the native fauna of South America when it was connected to North America by a land bridge and notes that if there had been a land bridge between Asia and Australia, the same thing would have happened.
Collection
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1906-03-09