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Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Aleš Hrdlička

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Aleš Hrdlička

Theodore Roosevelt is interested in Dr. Aleš Hrdlicka’s recent article on Neanderthals. Roosevelt talks about his visit to the La Plata Museum and public opinion on recent discoveries by the Argentinian anthropologist Florentino Ameghino and the specimens Dr. Moreno had given him. Roosevelt talks about geologic time scales and asks if Hrdlicka knows “the antiquity of human remains” that Moreno discovered; Roosevelt gave the specimens from Moreno to the American Museum of Natural History.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1915-02-13

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919