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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

Correspondence between Clarence Bartlett, Philip Lutley Sclater and Balmoral Castle regarding the skin and skeleton of a giraffe and the donation of the skin to the Natural History Museum. Also telegrams from Balmoral Castle sending the Queen's condolences on the death of the giraffe and her request that it should be buried

Letters from Henry Walter Bates to Philip Lutley Sclater regarding his research and animals collected by Paul Du Chaillu

Correspondence between W Batty of Astley's Amphitheatre, to David William Mitchell regarding the price for two elephants

Letters from Gilbert Bayes to Philip Lutley Sclater regarding renewals of his ticket to the Gardens of the Zoological Society of London

Letters from John Thomas Barber Beaumont, County Fire Officer, discussing the effectiveness of heating in the Elephant House

Letters from Frank Evers Beddard to Philip Lutley Sclater regarding the cause of death of a giraffe in the Zoo, his appointment as Vice-Secretary, meetings of the flower memorial committee, the death of a calf of Sanger's elephant, the death of the Nasalis larvatus, the purchase of a Langur, a collection of plants, and his position as Prosector

Letters from Thomas Bell regarding his apologies that he will be unable to meet Edward Turner Bennett at the Gardens of the Zoological Society of London, proposed changes to the Gardens of the Society, a recommendation for William Cranley to work in the museum and an invitation to dinner

Letters from George Bennett to Philip Lutley Sclater regarding donation of wood hens to the Zoological Society of London

Letters from Charles William De La Poer Beresford to Philip Lutley Sclater regarding tickets and visits to the Zoological Society of London