Record

RefNoMS/924/2/8
LevelFile
TitleLetters of Nikolaas Tinbergen to Lawrence Shaffer with associated papers 1974
Date1974
DescriptionChiefly comprises letters to Lawrence 'Lary' Shaffer from Nikolaas 'Niko' Tinbergen, addressed from the Department of Zoology, Animal Behaviour Research Group, Oxford, covering both personal and professional matters. Topics include: Tinbergen's Nobel Prize money, dog behaviour, a crab manuscript authored by Shaffer and Tinbergen, possible sale of Tinbergen's collection of photographic negatives, photography and photographic equipment, Dave McDonald's tame fox cub, the Tinbergen's trip to Holland in the Netherlands, negotiations with Hanseatic TV productions in Germany, domesticated wolves.

Other papers:
Two black and white photographs. One photo shows a pair of Wellington boots outside a room with a fireplace identified on the verso as 'Lary's fireplace' in Tinbergen's house 'High Slakes' in Cumbria. The other phot is of a rabbit in the grass with an unidentified woman crouching near it, partially out of shot. It is labelled 'one of our rabbits - 1974'. These seem to relate to correspondence in this file about the reorganisation of the Tinbergen's house.
Extent1 folder
FormatManuscript
Typescript
Photograph
PhysicalDescriptionLoose papers
AccessStatusOpen
Fellows associated with this archive
CodePersonNameDates
NA1869Tinbergen; Nikolaas (1907 - 1988)1907 - 1988
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