Correspondence between the Dominions Office and Geoffrey Marr Vevers requesting Penguins and Cranes from South Africa for the Zoological Society of London
Collecting animals
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Letter from H Dormenberg to Philip Lutley Sclater, and draft reply, regarding the price of eider-ducks
Letter from John M Down to Philip Lutley Sclater regarding his shipment of live specimens of Bairds Tapir
Letter from W Drewett to Edward Turner Bennett regarding a few parrots and two pairs of Egyptian Geese that he has been able to buy. If the Zoological Society of London could spare a crowned crane, the Council would like to have one
Correspondence between Dublin Zoo and Geoffrey Marr Vevers regarding the import of animals to the Royal Zoological Society of Ireland and the Zoological Society of London
Letter from Wynfrid Laurence Henry Duckworth to Philip Lutley Sclater regarding his possible purchase of a gorilla which had arrived in London
Correspondence between Dudley Zoo and Geoffrey Marr Vevers regarding the transfer of animals between the Dudley Zoological Society and the Zoological Society of London and the import of animals from abroad
Correspondence between the Duke of Bedford and Geoffrey Marr Vevers regarding getting European Bison from Poland, the Curator of the New York Zoological Society sending White-tailed deer to the Zoological Society of London, an offer of Chartley Cattle and Soay Sheep by the Duke of Bedford, a specimen of the under-coat of the Pere David's deer, the early history of Pere David's deer, an Indian Rhino being brought from Calcutta by ZSL Overseer L M Flewin, Wisent bulls in Stockholm, the rearing of Pere David's deer at Whipsnade, an exchange of Parakeets, and the importation of Pere David's deer to Australia,
Correspondence between the Duke of Bedford and Geoffrey Marr Vevers regarding the exchange of animals between the Zoological Society of London and Woburn Safari Park, information about Chillingham Cattle and supporting the herd, the feeding of deer, the Duke of Bedford becoming a Member of the Council of the Zoological Society of London, pheasants and water fowl from the Continent, meetings of the Council, Pere David's Deer, and the importation of a European Bison bull from Poland for the Duke of Bedford
Letter to Geoffrey Marr Vevers regarding a Eland gifted to the Zoological Society of London by Andrew Dykes