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Letters from Thomas George Baring to Philip Lutley Sclater regarding the Zoological Gardens at Calcutta

Letter from J Bartlett to Philip Lutley Sclater regarding animals in the Zoological Society collections

Letter from Celia Barlow to say that she is feeling much better. She collects mussels and sea anemones and will show Edward Turner Bennett specimens of crustaceans from Teighnmouth

Letter from Catherine Barnes regarding a stuffed specimen of 'Ground Dove'. Says she was attempting to bring Edward Turner Bennett two live humming birds, fed on sugar solution, but both died in a storm

Letters from Phineas Taylor Barnum to Philip Lutley Sclater regarding the purchase and transfer of Alice the elephant. Also a letter regarding the purchase of specimens for Barnum's Zoological Museum

Letter from Sir Henry Winston Barron to Philip Lutley Sclater regarding his subscription to the Zoological Society

Letter from Abraham Dee Bartlett to David William Mitchell regarding the weight of the flesh, bones, skin and organs of an elephant

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

Letter from Thomas John Batcheler to Philip Lutley Sclater regarding his subscription to the Zoological Society of London