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President Roosevelt feels Caspar Whitney’s article covers the case entirely and congratulates his admirable work. He regrets not publishing in the Outing Magazine, but he had not intended writing at all.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1907-08-19
Theodore Roosevelt writes to Cherry Kearton in order to introduce Edward B. Clark, a newspaper writer and ornithologist, whom Roosevelt calls a “fine fellow.” Roosevelt asks if Kearton might advise Clark on the best places to observe the various birds of England. Roosevelt also asks Kearton to tell his brother, Richard Kearton, how pleased Roosevelt was by his African pictures, which he hopes will be reproduced in book form.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-05-05
President Roosevelt declines an invitation to a fox hunt with Surgeon General Rixey, as it could not be kept secret. Roosevelt agrees with Rixey about the expulsion of cadet William J. Nalle. Roosevelt will bring ornithologist Edgar Alexander Mearns with him on his upcoming African safari.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1908-08-01
President Roosevelt informs ornithologist Waldron DeWitt Miller that he shot a Dominican or yellow-throated warbler at Oyster Bay, New York. He offers to send the bird’s skin to Miller.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1907-07-08
President Roosevelt introduces Outram Bangs, a Boston ornithologist who is visiting Jamaica, to Jamaica Governor Swettenham.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1906-01-12
William T. Hornaday thanks Theodore Roosevelt for the letter which was sent to William Beebe. Hornaday believes Beebe is the world’s greatest ornithologist in part because, like Hornaday, he is committed to “making interesting zoological knowledge available to the millions who are interested in birds.” Hornaday would like Roosevelt to attend the opening of the Heads and Horns Collection in the Spring of 1918.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1916-10-10
William T. Hornaday thanks Theodore Roosevelt for endorsing his latest book and commends Roosevelt for his own writing about wildlife conservation. Hornaday was extremely disappointed that the book about Alaskan birds published by the Audubon Society did not give adequate coverage to conservation issues.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1915-02-01
Charles Sheldon agrees to go to Boston with Theodore Roosevelt and will meet him at the train. Sheldon enjoyed Roosevelt’s reply to Abbot Handerson Thayer, who Sheldon believes is hopeless for needing perfect weather conditions to successfully perform experiments. Sheldon asks if Roosevelt has read The Making of Species and believes Roosevelt will want to send his monograph to the authors, Frank Finn and Douglas Dewar.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-11-26
Paul Russell Cutright examines Theodore Roosevelt’s first two published works: lists of birds found in the Adirondack mountains and in Oyster Bay, New York. Cutright explores Roosevelt’s friendship with H.D. Minot who coauthored The Summer Birds of the Adirondacks in Franklin County, N.Y., and he also looks at Roosevelt’s Notes on Some of the Birds of Oyster Bay, Long Island. Cutright reviews the field work that went into each pamphlet, discusses some of the birds found in each, and compares the information found in them to observations in Roosevelt’s natural history notebooks. He also highlights the publications in which the pamphlets have been reprinted, and he lists the museums, libraries, and institutions that have these rare works in their collections. Two pages of endnotes and a biography of Cutright supplement the text.
The first page of The Summer Birds of the Adirondacks in Franklin County, N.Y. appears twice in the article along with a photograph of the Snow owl donated to the American Museum of Natural History by Roosevelt.
Film of various views of Dr. Frank M. Chapman, ornithologist, Curator of Ornithology at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City (1908-1942) and recipient of the Roosevelt Distinguished Service Medal (1928). Medium shot of Chapman sitting at a desk in undetermined location; view of him walking towards the camera, down what may be the staircase of the museum; and long shot of a man who may be Chapman walking across the street with the museum visible in the background.
Library of Congress Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound
1921