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Correspondence between Geoffrey Marr Vevers and the Zoological Society of London regarding his ill health and surgeon's fees, a letter of complaint from a Fellow about the abolishment of the office of Secretary, a complaint about the sizes of meat served by the Catering Department and a proposed agenda for a meeting of the Emergency Committee

Letter from J G Vidjen of the Queensland Acclimatisation Society, to Philip Lutley Sclater regarding a shipment of birds for the Zoological Society of London

4 Regent St

May 8th 1846

Sir

In pursuance of a Resolution of the Council of the Zoological Society I have the honour to inform you that you have been admitted as one of the original members of the Society and I am directed to request the payment of your Subscription at your earliest convenience. I beg leave to forward to you the enclosed Prospectus and to solicit your exertions to obtain the accession of others to our list of Subscribers.

I have the honour to be Sir,
your obedient Servant

N.A. Vigors
Secretary

John A. Blake Esq
etc etc etc

Letter from Sir Arthur Pendarves Vivian to Philip Lutley Sclater regarding the opening of the Gardens of the Zoological Society of London on a Sunday

Letter from Willem Vrolik to Philip Lutley Sclater offering a live specimen of leopard to the Zoological Society of London

Letters from Arthur Walden, Marquess of Tweedale, to Philip Lutley Sclater regarding an offer from the Duke of Wellington of two male llamas, Fellowship of the Zoological Society of London, specimens of an insect, and subscriptions to the Society

Letter from R Walford stating that his carpenter is preparing specifications and an estimate for a temporary Giraffe House. Requests that Edward Turner Bennett ask Mr Burton to attend a Council meeting

Letter from I Walker to Philip Lutley Sclater regarding the feeding of live animals to the snakes in the Gardens of the Zoological Society of London

Correspondence between L C Walker and the Zoological Society of London regarding appointments to the Special Committee of the Council of the Society

Letters from Alfred Russel Wallace to Philip Lutley Sclater regarding the purchase of a joint residential estate, extracts read at meetings of the Zoological Society of London, papers for the Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London and Natural Science, his publication on 'Monkeys - their structure, affinities and distribution', a shipment of birds for the Society, improvements to the Gardens of the Zoological Society of London, notes on the Umbrella Bird, his election as a Fellow, papers on marine mammals, opinions on theories by Darwin, Birds of Paradise, and a list of butterflies of Costa Rica