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 Vanderbilt family, has presented to the New York Museum of Natural History the priceless world-famous Rothschild collection of birds. The 280,000 specimens include Mr. Gregory Matthews’ 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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Taranaki Daily News, 23 November 1932, Page 7
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