COLLECTION OF BIRDS
PRESENTATION TO MUSEUM
WORLD-FAMOUS SPECIMENS
NEW YORK, Nov. 15
Mrs. Harry Payne Whitney, a noted sculptor and a member of the Yanderbilt family, has presented to the New York Museum of Natural History the priceless world-famous Rothschilds, collection of birds.
The 280,000 specimens include Mr. Gregory Mathews' Australian and Sir Walter Buller's New Zealand collections, a Pacific Island section, with specimens of extinct Hawaiian birds and a large British section.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 21346, 22 November 1932, Page 9
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