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Letters from Bennet Burleigh to Peter Chalmers Mitchell regarding two young ostriches and a squirrel from Somaliland to be gifted to the Zoological Society of London

Letters from Lionel Walter Rothschild to Peter Chalmers Mitchell regarding the preparation of food for Rheas and Emus and agreeing that Mr Boulanger can take the Chimpanzee home

Letters from Herbrand Russell, 11th Duke of Bedford, to Peter Chalmers Mitchell regarding animals available for purchase by the Zoological Society of London, including a zebra and a Cow Aurox from Hagenbeck at Hamburg

Letters from S A Drummond Hay to Nicholas Aylward Vigors regarding specimens of zoology in the vicinity of Tangier

Letters from J L Cox regarding the keeping of birds in the Gardens of the Zoological Society of London and a donation of animals from a friend for the Society

Letters from William Heame regarding the arrival of the Brig 'Adak' at London Docks with a Hawksbill Turtle, 2 Land Tortoises, 1 male ditto, 1 Pigeon, 6 Doves and a flamingo which is supposed to be dead and only a skin. Also speaks of the arrival of his display cabinet and asks the Zoological Society of London to select and withdraw all the insects they desire from drawers of his in their possession

Letters from R J Lowe regarding casks of fish sent to the Zoological Society of London and what he regards as a new species which he names Alepisaurus

Letter from S J Merriman of Brasenose College conveying an offer from an ornithologist he met in the summer in Shetlands to catch for the Zoological Society of London a number of specified seabirds breeding in the islands

Letter from R Merry regarding information on heronry at Crepy Hall. He talks of a series of inheritance disasters and eventual burning down of Crepy Hall

Letter from Charles Middleton apologising for an omission made by a printer in the copy he sent a previous day