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Letter from H Woods who says he spoke to Wombwell (a dealer in Commercial Road) about the kangaroo. He would be satisfied with the female and would give an equivalent. He had his eye on a bear in the corner on the left of the elephants. He encloses a drawing of the head of the bear but the den was too dark to see it distinctly

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 Julien Francois Desjardins to Edward Charlesworth, Assistant Secretary of the Zoological Society of London, regarding the Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London and papers for publication

Letter from Braithwaite, Milner and Co. to John Barlow regarding a report on the steam engine and machinery at the gardens of the Zoological Society of London

Letter from William Martin, Secretary of the Bristol and Clifton Zoological Gardens, to John Barlow regarding a specimen they held of an Active Gibbon which they offered for sale to the Zoological Society of London

A list and two letters from Edward Smith Stanley to Edward Ogilby

Letters from Sir George Clerk to David William Mitchell regarding the Chancellor of the Exchequer and the purchase of a museum collection of the Zoological Society of London

Letter from William Dumbreck to David William Mitchell offering to dispose of a tiger from the Edinburgh collection

Letters from Richard Gibbons to David William Mitchell regarding his subscription to the Zoological Society of London