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Walter and Rothschild
The Balfour Declaration ( dated 2 November 1917 ) was a letter from the United Kingdom's Foreign Secretary Arthur James Balfour to Baron Rothschild ( Walter Rothschild, 2nd Baron Rothschild ), a leader of the British Jewish community, for transmission to the Zionist Federation of Great Britain and Ireland.
At the International Zoological Congress at Budapest in 1927, Mayr was introduced by Stresemann to banker and naturalist Walter Rothschild, who asked him to undertake an expedition to New Guinea on behalf of himself and the American Museum of Natural History in New York.
He returned to Germany in 1930 and in 1931 he accepted a curatorial position at the American Museum of Natural History, where he played the important role of brokering and acquiring the Walter Rothschild collection of bird skins, which was being sold in order to pay off a blackmailer.
In 1927, the naturalist Reginald Innes Pocock declared it a separate species, but reversed this decision in 1939 due to lack of evidence ; but in 1928, a skin purchased by Walter Rothschild was found to be intermediate in pattern between the king cheetah and spotted cheetah and Abel Chapman considered it to be a color form of the spotted cheetah.
* Rothschild, Walter ( 1899 ) A Monograph of the genus Casuarius.
* Lionel Walter Rothschild, 2nd Baron Rothschild of the United Kingdom ( 1868 – 1937 )
* 1923-1928: Lord Walter Rothschild ( 1868 – 1937 )
Nathan Mayer Rothschild's son Lionel Walter Rothschild ( 2nd Lord Rothschild, 1868 – 1937 ) built a private zoological museum in Tring.
Lionel Walter Rothschild, 2nd Baron Rothschild, Baron de Rothschild FRS ( 8 February 1868 – 27 August 1937 ), a scion of the Rothschild family, was a British banker, politician, and zoologist.
Walter Rothschild was the eldest son and heir of
Walter Rothschild suggested that the reason the painted specimens had yellow wing-tips instead of black as in the old descriptions might have been albinism.
Morpho butterflies, often very expensive, have always been prized by extremely wealthy collectors. Famous collections include those of the London jeweller Dru Drury and the Dutch merchant Pieter Teyler van der Hulst, the Paris diplomat Georges Rousseau-Decelle, the financier Walter Rothschild, the Romanov Grand Duke Nicholas Mikhailovich of Russia and the, English and German respectively, businessmen James John Joicey and Curt Eisner.
Named by Lionel Walter Rothschild in 1892, the Laysan Duck is named after Laysan island, one of the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands.
Walter Rothschild, 2nd Baron Rothschild
* Lionel Walter Rothschild, 2nd Baron Rothschild ( 1868 – 1937 )

Walter and Zoological
In the 1990s an analysis of Meinertzhagen's bird collection at the Walter Rothschild Zoological Museum in Tring, Hertfordshire, revealed large scale fraud involving theft and falsification.
Zebra-horse hybrid foal with quagga-like markings, Walter Rothschild Zoological Museum, Tring, England.
Russian and Mexican Lapdogs ( immature ) at Walter Rothschild Zoological Museum, Tring, England.
However, British ornithologist Alan Knox had analysed Meinertzhagen's bird collection at the Walter Rothschild Zoological Museum in Tring, UK in the early 1990s, and uncovered significant fraud involving theft of specimens from museums and falsification of the accompanying documentation.
Outside Japan, 7 specimens ( including the type ) are in the MNHN, Paris, one in the Walter Rothschild Zoological Museum, Tring, two in the USNM, Washington D. C. and six in the AMNH, New York City.
In addition, there is a mounted jaguar-lion hybrid, preserved in a lying-down pose with head raised, at the Walter Rothschild Zoological Museum, Tring, England.
One is preserved in the Walter Rothschild Zoological Museum at Tring, England and clearly shows the tendency to dwarfism.

Walter and Museum
* On Higher Ground: Selections From the Walter O. Evans Collection, group show, 2001, Henry Ford Museum, Michigan
* Of Cables and Grips: The Cable Cars of San Francisco, by Robert Callwell and Walter Rice, published by Friends of the Cable Car Museum, first edition, 2000.
Together they had seven children, three of whom became noteworthy artists: Walter and Arthur Severn, and Ann Mary Newton, who married the archeologist and Keeper of Antiquities at the British Museum, Charles Thomas Newton.
Walter Scott's stone slab at the Makars ' Court outside The Writers ' Museum in Edinburgh
" The Embarkation of the Pilgrims " ( 1857 ) by the American painter Robert Walter Weir at the Brooklyn Museum in New York City
* The Museum of Art in the Old Town Hall which contains the Helmut and Constanze Meyer Art Foundation, the Georg Tappert collection and the archives and collection of Caspar Walter Rauh.
Around the western-central area is Independence Square and Promenade Gardens, the Walter Roth Museum of Anthropology, the National Library ( built by Andrew Carnegie ), the Bank of Guyana, Company Path Garden, the National Museum of Guyana and State House ( built 1852 ) where the President resides, and St. George's Anglican Cathedral.
* Fluxus und Freunde: Sammlung Maria und Walter Schnepel, Katalog zur Ausstellung Neues Museum Weserburg Bremen ; Fondazione Morra, Napoli ; Kunst Museum Bonn 2002.
* Walter Annenberg at The Museum of Broadcast Communications
This first Pop Art museum exhibition in America was curated by Walter Hopps at the Pasadena Art Museum.
The museum ( originally the Wilton Park Museum ) is named after its first curator Walter Bagshaw, a Batley councillor and extensive traveller.
There is a statue of him ( leaning over his desk ) by James Walter Butler ( bronze, 18 September 1998 ) located in the canal basin by Leicester Row, Coventry, and another by Colin Melbourne ( bronze, 20 July 1990 ) in Lower Bedford Street, Etruria, Stoke-on-Trent, at the junction of the Trent and Mersey Canal with the Caldon Canal, opposite Etruria Industrial Museum.
Whatever You ’ re Looking For You Wont ’ Find It here, published by the Kunsthalle Wien to accompany Pettibon ’ s exhibition in 2006 ; Turn to the Title Page, an artist book that was specially created as a part of Pettibon ’ s one-artist exhibition at the Whitney Museum in 2005 ; Raymond Pettibon: Plots Laid Thick published by MACBA in Barcelona, Spain in 2002 ; Raymond Pettibon, published by Phaidon Press, Inc. in 2001 ; Raymond Pettibon: The Books 1978-98, edited by Roberto Ohrt and published by Verlag der Buchhandlung Walter Konig and DAP, New York in 2000 ; and Raymond Pettibon: A Reader, published by the Philadelphia Museum of Art and the Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago in 1998.
1943 – 45 by Walter Inglis Anderson, and exhibited at the Brooklyn Museum in 1949.
" He also says that the " Tulli Papyrus ", cited by von Däniken in one of his books, is likely cribbed from the Book of Ezekiel, and quoted Dr. Nolli ( through Dr. Walter Ramberg, Scientific Attache at the U. S. embassy in Rome ), then current Director of the Egyptian Section of the Vatican Museum, as " suspect that Tulli was taken in and that the papyrus is a fake.
* Kendrick, Walter M. The Secret Museum: Pornography in Modern Culture.
Walter and Marianne Koerner's 1975 donation of their extensive collection of Northwest Coast First Nations art to the Museum formed a large part of the new building's contents.
The Museum also has a small wing dedicated to European ceramic art works collected by the late Walter Koerner.
* PGA Museum of Golf ( Port St. Lucie, Florida ) — Museum traces the story of The PGA of America, holds golf's four major Championship trophies, the oldest-known written mention of golf for the Articles of Parliament in the 15th Century ; Walter Hagen's birth certificate ; Donald Ross ' 1900s-era workbench, the PGA Golf Professional Hall of Fame, and is home to the Probst Library, one of the foremost collections of golf periodicals in the world.

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