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NZSL/HOD/5/4/15
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Letter from East India House to Brian Houghton Hodgson
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- 6 Feb 1845 (Creation)
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(1800-1894)
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East India House
Sir
I have laid before the Court of Directors of the East India Company your letter of the 25th ultimo tendering for their acceptance duplicate specimens of your extensive Collection of the Zoology of Nepal and Tibet. In reply I am commanded to convey to you the acknowledgements and thanks of the Court for this offer, which they have much pleasure in accepting. The Court are gratified by the opportunity of adding to their Museum and Collections acquired by so much Scientific Research and appropriated wit so much public spirit.
I am
Sir
Your most obedient
humble Servant
M.W.
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- Hodgson, Brian Houghton (Subject)
- East India Company (Subject)