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Letter from J Forbes Royle regarding an oration at the opening of London University. Sends a useful addition to your collection of drawings

Letters from John Sabine regarding the housing of the Rhinoceros and Tapir, conversations with Fuller about a larger repository for the greater carnivores, committee meetings of the Zoological Society of London and the dismissal of the head gardener and his recommendation of Morris Burr as his successor

Letters from Monsieur A Valenciennes of the Jardin des Plantes in Paris regarding the fish Alepisaurus and of the progress of zoological science and of co-operation

Letter from Dr Wrathermad enclosing a more extended comment for his friend Mr Maude's letter reporting the burrowing of Ornithorguchus

Letters from William Yarrell regarding a heraldic question raised by Edward Turner Bennett, an unspecified dispute which had been considered at a meeting of the Council at Grosvenor Square, and a manuscript of Walcott's 'British Birds' asking Bennett to allow the dates 1784 and 1785 to stand since Walcott left Teignmouth for Chelsea in 1786 and was resident in Chelsea in 1787

Report by William Yarrell and Mitchell about purchase of greyhounds from Abbas Pasha

Letters from William Harrison Ainsworth to David William Mitchell regarding the cancellation of his subscription to the Zoological Society of London

Letters from R I Bouchier to David William Mitchell regarding five ostriches for the Zoological Society of London, a lion from Sir Vincent Casolain and a collection of living reptiles

Letters from John Edward Gray regarding John Gould's collection of birds and his subscription to the Zoological Society of London

Letters from Robert Hesketh to David William Mitchell regarding an estimate of work done to animal houses and enclosures at the Zoological Society of London, including the Terrance Dens and the Hippopotamus House