Letters from H Windhorn to Philip Lutley Sclater regarding the transport and death of the Queen's Giraffe
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Correspondence between Major J E Stevens and Geoffrey Marr Vevers regarding the offer of a panther cub (which died before transportation) and a Burmese Thamin to the Zoological Society of London
Letters from W J Schalabear from Havanna regarding explanatory sketches to illustrate the paper showing the economy of the genus Urania, two species of lizards he thought to be Ptyodactylus but look like Spheriodactylus, and the death of a man in Havanna called Douglas who was sent to collect specimens for Dr Hooker but contracted fever (the British Consul had what specimens he had collected)
Correspondence between Dr Reginald Elson Rewell and Geoffrey Marr Vevers regarding the disposal of dead animals, graduated and other glassware required by Rewell, and a delivery of chemicals
Correspondence between G North Peal and Philip Lutley Sclater regarding the death of the previous Secretary of the Zoological Society of London, David William Mitchell
Correspondence between Major Albert Pam and the Zoological Society of London regarding an exhibition of domestic animals, the death of Frederick Bond and provision for his widow, a memorandum by the Treasurer for an increase in pay for permanent staff, matters for discussion with Geoffrey Marr Vevers, advertisements for an Assistant Superintendent and application forms, a list of duties for the Assistant Superintendent, lists of senior staff, organisational charts and proposals for an elephant house
Letters from James Murie to Philip Lutley Sclater regarding the death of a giraffe from mouth disease, his monograph on Otaria, and his memoirs on the walrus, kagu, hyaena, pilot whale, otaria and manatee
Letters from Alexander Miller of the Zoological Gardens regarding a Chinese Pheasant which escaped and had been running in Park Street, Camden Town, an escape from the Dove House, the removal of an oak fence on the southern boundary, the health of a Rhinoceros, the Society's Cashmere Goat, his visit to City Road Basin, the purchase of a Chimpanzee, a visit by the Queen to the Gardens, a stillborn Rhesus Monkey, dimensions of the back of a new den for the Elephant and Rhinoceros, the cost of laying the floor of the Elephant and Rhinoceros House, the death of a Chimpanzee and the return of John Woodbridge with Cranes and Leopards
Correspondence between Pat Maxwell and George Soper Cansdale regarding sending dead snakes to the Royal Albert Memorial Museum at Exeter
Letter regarding a specimen of a dead adder which was shipped on board the 'City of Poona' from Adelaide