Letter to Dr A Tindell Hopwood of the British Museum (Natural History) inviting him to act as Honorary Editor for a further volume of Nomenclator Zoologicus
Museums
72 Descripción archivística resultados para Museums
Letters from Phineas Taylor Barnum to Philip Lutley Sclater regarding the purchase and transfer of Alice the elephant. Also a letter regarding the purchase of specimens for Barnum's Zoological Museum
Letters from John Gould regarding a Zebra that was exhibiting signs of tetanus, the request of a salary of £50 for the new arrangement by the Museum Committee, an expedition to collect specimens for the Zoological Society of London and several gifts to the Society
Correspondence between the Museum of Zoology at the University of Cambridge and Geoffrey Marr Vevers regarding eggs for the egg-tasting panel, and a donation of grass snakes to the Museum of Zoology
Correspondence between Pat Maxwell and George Soper Cansdale regarding sending dead snakes to the Royal Albert Memorial Museum at Exeter
Minutes also mention the work of William Martin, John Gould, George Waterhouse and Louis Fraser.
Three scrapbooks of newspaper cuttings: 1) Cairo to the Cape (about the flight taken by Peter Chalmers Mitchell), also Mount Everest expedition. 2) Cuttings about British Museum (Natural History) where Joan Procter volunteered. Includes letter from E G Boulenger to Joan Procter. 3) Joan Procter's appointment as Curator of Reptiles at London Zoo (1923). Includes photos and letters.
Correspondence between Sir Arthur Landsborough Thomson and L Harrison Matthews regarding Council Meetings, a proposed educational exhibit, a museum of the Zoological Society of London, the Scientific Fellowship, and the Department of Zoology in Cambridge
Correspondence between W H T Tams of the British Museum (Natural History) and the Zoological Society of London regarding the biography of Dr C Davies Sherborn
Correspondence between Clarence Bartlett, Philip Lutley Sclater and Balmoral Castle regarding the skin and skeleton of a giraffe and the donation of the skin to the Natural History Museum. Also telegrams from Balmoral Castle sending the Queen's condolences on the death of the giraffe and her request that it should be buried