Object Details
- General note
- M110 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, 4.5 x 7 in.)
- Date
- 1865 - 1931
- Container
- Item M110
- 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
- Millais thanks Bryden for his letter, mentions a gazelle picture "certainly spring buck is a gazelle", complains that a working holiday has been stopped again by the arrival of proofs of his last two chapters, and giving an account of the news he has heard from Sir Edmund Lodder's [i.e., Loder's?] hunting trip: "... amongst others he was lucky to kill 5 of the rare Beira antelope, till now, though banned, unshot by any European. In four months he has got everything, even rhinoceros, lion and one elephant."
- Record ID
- ebl-1503510890585-1503510890711-2
