Correspondence between Brian Vesey Fitzgerald and Geoffrey Marr Vevers on feeding bats for a research project on malaria in bats in Palestine

Correspondence between the University of Hull and Geoffrey Marr Vevers regarding the design of cages to hold fowls or rabbits and samples of drinking and feeding vessels, the appointment of an Assistant Lecturer in the Department of Zoology, artificial lighting for birds, the import of Macaws, and a source of supply of Chrysotis

Letter from F Baddeley to Peter Chalmers Mitchell regarding the feeding of goats to serpents in the Gardens of the Zoological Society of London

Letter from Susan J Gore to Reginald Innes Pocock regarding the feeding of live goats to the snakes at the Gardens of the Zoological Society of London

Letters from Eric Burrows regarding tickets for entrance to London Zoo, and congratulations on her appointment. He had found food for her salamanders when Joan Procter lived at Kensington

Letters from Abraham Dee Bartlett to Philip Lutley Sclater regarding the doors to the new elephant house, animal food consumption, the female rhinoceros, the mounted specimen of a young gorilla, authorisation to sell Alice the elephant to Mr Barnum, and the theft of an owl

Letters from Hussey, H C to Philip Lutley Sclater regarding the feeding of goats to the python at the Zoological Society of London

Letter from F T Monro to Philip Lutley Sclater regarding the private feeding of reptiles in the Gardens of the Zoological Society of London

Correspondence between the Ministry of Food and Geoffrey Marr Vevers regarding the supply of rations to a small circus which included a travelling zoo and a campaign against the waste of bread, with a request to display posters throughout the Gardens

Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals
Manchester Branch

9 Albert Square
Manchester

October 19th 1903

The Secretary
Zoological Gardens
Regents Park
London

Dear Sir

I am desired by my Committee to write and ask you for information on the following points:-

1. Is it a fact that Snakes in the Zool. Gardens at New York are not and never have been fed on live animals?
2. Are the Snakes at the Zoo in London fed on live animals, and if so on what kind of animals
3. If they are not so fed, what is the nature of the food given them?
4. What is your opinion as to food for Snakes. Is it necessary to feed them on living animals, or are all requirements met by feeding them on animals newly killed?

Any information you can give as to these points will be useful to us here and if you can let us have your replies to the above questions we shall be very greatly obliged

Yours faithfully

J. Lang

Sec.