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Letter from Julian Sorell Huxley to Sir Arthur Smith Woodward regarding a meeting by the Estimates Committee about Bushby and Barnett

Letters from Henry Woodward to Philip Lutley Sclater regarding the career of Arthur Cates as a natural history draughtsman

Correspondence between Sir Arthur Smith Woodward and the Zoological Society of London regarding his resignation from the Council of the Society and his golden wedding anniversary

Letter from G O Wooler saying that he had come up from Wolsingham to see his son Joseph, who had been in Bombay and had brought back a Black Dog (domesticated in Bombay although of the species Parish - wild dog). He considers that it is what Captain Williams calls a Dhole, which usually go in packs

Letter from S V Woolmer to William Yarrell regarding the Deed of Declaration of Trusts in respect to the Cunningham Museum

Letter from James Archibald Stuart Wortley to Philip Lutley Sclater regarding his subscription to the Zoological Society of London

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

Sun. Eve [1840]

Sir
I have the pleasure to send you my description of the Silurus and of its anatomy. You will perceive that my memory was not quite correct, for instead of a long Dorsal my [Diclioo Mutchie] has a long Anal fin. The former according to other of my memory is the Heterobranchus of Geoffroy St Hilaire and is likewise endowed with the same singular conformation of the Bronchia which he has described while Cuvier repeats in his Anatomie Comparee.
I will see you in the afternoon of tomorrow and explain further -

I am
Sir
Your very Obed. etc

John Whyllie

Waterhouse Esqre.

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 from C W F Young, Assistant Medical Officer of Health at the London County Council, to Philip Lutley Sclater regarding Regent's and Grand Junction Canals