Correspondence between Private Booth and Geoffrey Marr Vevers regarding a Gazelle for the Zoological Society of London
Collecting animals
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Correspondence between P M Burton and Geoffrey Marr Vevers regarding a young Monkey, three Chameleons, a Python and a Boa Constrictor for the Zoological Society of London
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,
A collection of papers mainly relating to the herpetology of Hong Kong, including a typewritten papers entitled 'Notes on the Geckos of Hong Kong', a series of black and white photographs (plus negatives) showing a Hong Kong landscape with accompanying notes detailing the collection of herpetological specimens, a list of reptile and amphibian specimens in Romer's collection, two colour photographs and accompanying sketch of a turtle (Trionyx steindachneri), and Romer's curriculum vitae
Correspondence between Philip E Mensah and George Soper Cansdale regarding collections of animals from the Gold Coast for the Zoological Society of London
Correspondence between Captain C Millsom and Geoffrey Marr Vevers regarding the offer of a pet Hulak Gibbon from Burma to the Zoological Society of London