Photocopies of obituaries published in The Times and Independent (Aubrey Manning). Folder also includes an obituary of Tinbergen's brother Lukas who died in 1955.

80th birthday tributes in German and Dutch newspapers, 1987. 'Tinbergen's Legacy', a review of The Study of Instinct (first published in 1951 and reissued in 1989, shortly after Tinbergen's death) by T.J. Roper and published in Trends in Ecology & Evolution, October 1989.

Brief correspondece regarding Tinbergen's biographical entry in Encyclopedia Hebraica, 1965. Brief correspondence with C.J. Meyers regarding an interview on scientific creativity, 1966-1967.

Also includes a 1976 letter from William H. Thorpe (Bill) asking for a summary of the 'origins of ethology' from Tinbergen's point of view. Tinbergen replied with a description of his experience at: the Animal Behaviour Research Group in the Zoologisch Laboratorium, University of Leiden, 1934-1949, (1p typescript) the Animal Behaviour Research Group in the Department of Zoology,...

Correspondence with M. Salomon of Prospective et sante publique and E. Goldsmith of The Ecologist regarding the interview and potential plans for publication.

French text of the interview.

English text of the interview, with ms. additions and corrections by Tinbergen.

Corrected English text of the interview for MacMillan Publishing Co, New York, with related correspondence.

Correspondence with D.A. Dewsbury regarding a volume of autobiographies of early researchers in the study of animal behaviour. The volume was published as Dewsbury (ed.), Leaders in the Study of Animal Behavior: autobiographical perspectives, Lewisburg, PA, USA: Bucknell University Press, 1985.

Tinbergen's contribution to the Dewsbury volume. 54pp typescript plus references.

Offprint of the Tinbergen chapter of Dewsbury's book.

2pp typescript.

MS. poem written for Tinbergen and dated 'Sint Nikolaas 1920'. Rough draft.

Five letters (in Dutch) from Tinbergen to his family from Rossitten, East Prussia, 27 August, 5, 19, 22, and 30 September 1925, and one letter from Tinbergen to his parents from Nidden, East Prussia, 25 September 1925. The letters are accompanied by a note by Mrs. E.A. Tinbergen (in English): A friend of his parents, Prof. Ehrenfest, advised his parents to send Niko for some months to the "Rossitten Vogelwarte" in what was then East Prussia, and to get...

Three postcards depicting 'Krähenfang auf der kurischen Nehrung' East Prussia. One dated Rossitten, 6 October 1925.

Letter from R. Steinert to Tinbergen's father on his son's relations with Professor Thienemann during his stay at the Vogelwarte Rossitten.

'Wanderkarte von der Kurischen Nehrung', East Prussia.

Four letters from Tinbergen to his family, 31 August 1927, 6 and 8 August 1929 and 11 December 1934.

Letter from the Dutch ornithologist F. Haverschmidt to Tinbergen, 5 May 1930; letter from the Director of the Amsterdam Zoo A.F.J. Portielje to Tinbergen, 4 September 1931; draft of letter from Tinbergen and Luuk Tinbergen (brother) to the German ornithologist Uttendörfer 19 October 1931; letter from Jos [van Room, later Baerends] 20 July 1935; letter from G P Baerends, 28 July [1935].