Object Details
- General note
- Correspondent tentatively identified as Harry Storey, author of Hunting & shooting in Ceylon (1907). M105a is accession number in the Russell E. Train inventory list of the Joseph F. Cullman 3rd Library of Natural History.
- Collection Creator
- Train, Russell E., 1920-2012
- Russell E. Train Africana Collection (Smithsonian. Libraries)
- See more items in
- Russell E. Train Africana collection
- Russell E. Train Africana collection / Series 5: Manuscripts
- Extent
- 1 Item (Correspondence, 5.25 x 7 in.)
- Date
- 1926 November 4
- Container
- Item M105a
- Archival Repository
- Smithsonian Libraries
- Type
- Archival materials
- Collection Rights
- The collection is housed in the Joseph F. Cullman 3rd Library of Natural History, which is open to researchers Monday through Friday in the afternoons, from 1:30 to 5:00 p.m.; morning visits are by appointment only. Please call (202) 633-1184 or email AskaLibrarian@si.edu for an appointment.
- Scope and Contents note
- Mostly concerns Lyell's strong disagreement with those advocating eradication of game in order to eliminate tsetse fly and expressing his wish to return to Africa to hunt big elephants.
- Record ID
- ebl-1503510890585-1503510890710-1
