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Theodore Roosevelt will read Mammals of the Mexican Boundary with great interest. Roosevelt looks forward to when Edgar Alexander Mearns will publish a more extensive book on the mammals and birds of East Africa.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1908-08-08
Edgar Alexander Mearns writes to Theodore Roosevelt to request his help in obtaining a permit for the collection of moose, caribou, and beaver for the U.S. National Museum. Kermit Roosevelt will obtain the specimens while he is in New Brunswick.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1910-1919
Theodore Roosevelt has thoroughly enjoyed Wilfred H. Osgood’s book.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1915-08-07
Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to G.M. Allen expressing interest in Allen’s color study as well as his account of the mammals inhabiting the Blue Nile Valley. He finishes the letter by thanking Allen for remembering him.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1915-01-07
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.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1906-03-09
President Roosevelt looks forward to reading what Madison Grant has written about mammals.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-04-12
Charles W. Hargitt thanks Theodore Roosevelt for his paper, “Revealing and Concealing Coloration in Birds and Mammals,” and his “convincing critique” of Abbott Handerson Thayer. Hargitt also sends a copy of a discussion on a similar topic that might interest Roosevelt.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-09-02
Edgar Alexander Mearns praises the people of South Carolina. Mearns is also grateful for the interest that Theodore Roosevelt showed in Colonel Whister’s promotion. Edmund Heller would be “tremendously pleased” to have Roosevelt write about large African mammals.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-06-09
Bertha M. Clark, head of the science department at the William Penn High School for Girls, asks Theodore Roosevelt if it would be possible to purchase some lantern slide depictions of the various animals he caught in Africa. While Roosevelt was in office, he recommended that slides showing elements of forestry be sold to Clark, and they have been very useful in teaching her classes. Clark apologizes if her question is presumptuous, but emphasizes that she wants to help her students as best as she can.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-02-26
J. Alden Loring cannot find the notes on the life histories of mammals that he let Theodore Roosevelt take when they left Gondokoro. Loring asks Roosevelt to send them to him at his home in New York when he has finished with them since Loring needs them to make his official report.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1910-03-20
C. Hart Merriam re-sends some leaflets regarding mammals to President Roosevelt that had previously been lost. Merriam relays some second-hand information about Roosevelt’s son Ted, how he is well-informed and is not easily discouraged.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1902-05-12