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StorageSite	UCL Special Collections
Level	Item
Reference Number	DE BEER/2/1/48/2
Title	Letters Regarding De Beer's Research into the Archaeopteryx
Date	Sep 1950-Sep 1956
Description	Letters received from Johanna Gabrielle Ottelie "Tilly" Edinger (1897-1967) regarding research into Archaeopteryx; the British Museum (Natural History) sample and photographs; comparative anatomy; her book Evolution of the Horse Brain; attitudes towards palaeoneurology; Archawopteryx fossil and feather specimens from Berlin, and Solnhofen; and the endocranial Archaeopteryx cast. Letters also received from E Ansell of Cambridge University; the Los Angeles County Museum; Joan Evans; Erwin Stresemann; Dr W Gross; Alister Hardy; and J Piveteau regarding bibliographic references to Archaeopteryx; taxonomy; the debates concerning mosaic transition and evolution; the Berlin specimen; and Tilly Edinger's work. Copies of De Beer's outgoing letters are interspersed throughout.
Extent	1 folder
AccessStatus	Open
AccessConditions	The papers are available subject to the usual conditions of access to Archives and Manuscripts material, after the completion of a Reader's Undertaking.

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