20 AUGUST 1937, Page 23

TENNIEL'S DODO

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] Sm,—It seems astonishing that none of your correspondents mentions the reconstructed bird in the Natural History Museum, though some, as one in this week's issue, refer to paintings of it. Of these paintings there is a copy of one, with a history of the unhappy bird, in the museum. Tenniel's drawing is simply a drawing of the reconstructed dodo.-7Yours