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            NZSL/HOD/5/3/4 · Item · 20 Jul 1867
            Part of Non-ZSL Collections

            British Museum
            To A. Gunther

              1. 1867

            My dear Sir

            Many thanks for your very kind note which settles the question. I dare say I shall make use of your memoranda in next month's Annals and Mag and send you a proof before it is printed. Shall I send it your present address? In this case do not trouble yourself with a reply to this or to Dursley.

            Yours very truly
            A. Surtees

            NZSL/HOD/5/3/7 · Item · 7 Feb 1870
            Part of Non-ZSL Collections

            Belgrave Mansions S[outh?]

            My dear Hodgson

            I had a talk with G. Marshall today about your portfolios from wh[ich] he seems to have already abstracted such memoranda as [?] on the [Capitonida?] wh[ich] is the [work?] he has in hand. The rest of the contents of y[ou]r collection he wishes to catalogue for Hume's benefit and such a catalogue is a [?] for the [?] of naturalists generally. He hopes to find time for clarifying and cataloguing all y[ou]r drawings before he leaves England and in the interval will get Hume's reply to the letter wh[ich] he has written [explaining?] all that he has seen at Alderley. We both think that [regard?] being had to his own available space you had better send me portfolio at a time. He will write to you himself on this subject. I don't think from the tenor of our conversation that Hume's [?] book presents itself to him in a more definite shape than it does to me. But there appear to be some printed sheets of the work on their way to Engl[and] and these will show us something of the plan and if you approve of this and Hume expresses a wish to profit by your notes for the rest of his book you can hereafter supply him with the materials he requires. This methinks w[oul]d be preferable to sending out all yr portfolios indiscriminately. Marshall is evidently incorrect and may be relied on for [?] that he undertakes. He expects to publish his first [no?] of the Barbets on the 1st prox[imity]. I shall not be able to visit you for another fortnight or 3 weeks - My daughter Mrs [Strepwell?] will have I find to leave London to seek a milder climate in the I. of Wight. I have been looking at the so called Maracus Pelops in the Zoo, the animal is quite different from that I believe you to have described. I s[houl]d like to see from figures and notes of all the monkees your collection may contain. You might put these with the first portfolio wh[ich] you send up to us.

            With Kind Regards to
            Mrs. H.

            Ever Y[our]s S[incerel]y

            A. Grote

            NZSL/HOD/5/3/5 · Item · 30 Jan 1870
            Part of Non-ZSL Collections

            Belgrave Mansions S[ou]th

            30 Jan[uar]y

            My dear Hodgson,

            I wrote to your yesterday in some hurry from the club and had not y[ou]r letter with me. On referring to the latter I find that you describe the material with wh[ich] you [anticipate?] supplying Marshall as bulky? - Not I know what a valuable collection of drawings you have in those large portfolios of yours and it would be a great treat to me to have them to reach in at my leisure - but please bear in mind that I am only fixed for some 6 months and have but limited space at my command. My [traps?], books, specimens etc. are all at the warehouse hard by Taylor's Depository. Marshall will have to confine his labours to the subject of his special Monograph - the [climbing?] Barbets there is already a question raised as to what families of the order sh[oul]d come into the group thus defined so that for his present purpose he will hardly require many of y[ou]r drawings. Suppose therefore you in the first instance only send y[ou]r ornithology drawings or shall I ascertain from M. what he would like to have of them, before you despatch any. He told you I suppose that he and his brother are only at home on a short leave. They seem to me to have already undertaken more than they can well do during their stay in England and I fear you may be disappointed if you expect much work from them on your materials [?] I say this without the least intention to disparage the bona fides of the 2 brothers in whatever they may have engaged with you to do - they are full of the true Zoolog. enthusiasm and will do their best. I was unable to attend the last meeting of the Z.S. I sh[oul]d probably have met them there, they do a great deal of their work there with [?] Sharpe out librarian whose monograph on the Kingfisher you probably know. Have you seen [Beauves?] Editor of Sir H. Elliot's Glossary he has done his work very well.

            S[incerel]y y[our]s

            A. Grote

            NZSL/HOD/5/2/27 · Item · [Undated]
            Part of Non-ZSL Collections

            To B.H. Hodgson

            Lord Derby wrote to me that you have written to him shall I send off his box of Specimens? The list of Drawings only refer to The Mammalia

            My Dear Sir
            The list sent are correct in the numbers but the names as I am aware are ludicrously wrong but this arrived from the ignorance of the copyer but I thought you would be able to recognise them when you send them back the names shall be corrected. It was quite impossible to describe the new species until the whole collection was [sorted?] that the new and old might be compared and you appeared so fearfull that we should keep all that I concluded the sooner we could get the duplicates out of the Museum the better you would be please. The Mammalia their Heads and Horns exclusive of the of the more or less imperfect skeletons which are not yet unpacked have been sorted as follows
            Skins Head and Horns
            British Museum 170 195
            Skins Skull and Horns
            Collection n. 1 102 Ind. H
            n. 2 78 ? [Leiden]
            n. 3 48 Paris
            n.4 37 Berlin
            Collection Skull etc for Col. Surg 50 [58]
            Horns for India House 45
            Collection 5 - 7 For Mus. Frankf
            6 - 1 [?] taken by Mr. Ogilby
            Horns [Promican?] to Mus. Canterbury 2-

            Bird Skins
            British Museum 1753
            No 1. Leyden M 655
            2 Paris Leyden 536
            4 Berlin 411
            5 Frankfurt 352
            6 321
            7 290
            8 259
            No 9 237
            No 10 213
            11 205
            12 169

            The birds names are nearly finished I much fear that there are many errors in the numbering of them two very differing kind[s] having the same number and the Bills shew they evidently do not belong to the genus of the [?]

            We have seen no more of Mr. Howard. Have you written to Mr Rees of the Zool. Soc. about the Drawing? I believe they have no or very few Birds [Bones] at the Zool. Soc. The anatomical museum I mentioned was Haslar near Gosport under the care of Dr. John Richardson the arctic traveller.
            Yours ever
            J.E. Gray

            Laverick, I G
            SEC/7/12/6 · Item · 1884
            Part of ZSL Secretaries

            Letter from I G Laverick to Philip Lutley Sclater regarding elephants in China

            L Cura & Sons
            SUP/5/1/1/77 · Item · 1945
            Part of Superintendents

            Letter regarding an order of 4 Pythons, 6 Bengal Monitors and 50 Rhesus Monkeys by the Zoological Society of London

            CON/1/4/1 · Sub-series · 1987-2004
            Part of Conservation

            Correspondence with and about King Khalid Wildlife Research Centre, reports, proposals and correspondence with the National Commission for Wildlife Conservation and Development, Saudi Arabia

            Khan Wild Animal Farm
            CUR/7/4/21 · File · 1950
            Part of Curators and Keepers

            Correspondence with Khan Wild Animal Farm regarding the supply of animals, such as two Royal Bengal Tiger Cubs which were sent to Dudley Zoological Society

            K L Acooli and Sons
            CUR/7/4/19 · File · 1950
            Part of Curators and Keepers

            Correspondence with K L Acooli and Sons of Calcutta, regarding the purchase of animals for the Zoological Society of London