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Letters from Thomas Horsfield regarding his inability to meet Yarrell and Sabine, examination of his proofs, information of remarks of any kind on a species of elephant described in a passage he quotes from Bishop Heber's journal, Bennet's judgement on descriptions of several species, and an introduction to Mr Hugh Murrey who was was engaged in publication of an Account of China for the Edinburgh Cabinet Library in Zoology of China

Letter from W Masters to Joseph Sabine at Bruton Street regarding a present received by Canterbury Museum from S R Lushington, recently returned from India, comprising of 2 Hunt Leopards, 1 Royal Tiger and 2 Black Monkeys. They are currently in the West Indies Docks. The Museum has no facilities for handling them and asks to send for the animals to Regent's Park

Copy of a letter from Earl Charles John Canning to Colonel Phipps regarding birds in Calcutta and an expedition by an agent of the Zoological Society of London

Letters from Alexander Shaw to David William Mitchell regarding tigers from Bombay sent to the Zoological Society of London

Letters from Gerald Chetwynd Talbot, Private Secretary to the Governor General of India, to David William Mitchell regarding occurrences in the upper provinces of India which prevent the sending of Himalayan birds to England and the agent sent to Calcutta by the Zoological Society of London, a wild goat sent for presentation to Prince Albert, and a collection of hill birds for Prince Albert

Letters from John Hanning Speke to Philip Lutley Sclater regarding animals found in Tibet

Letters from the United Planters Association of Southern India to Philip Lutley Sclater regarding attempts to introduce appropriate varieties of Ladybirds from Australia for the extermination of certain scale pests

Correspondence between the Zoological Garden in Alipore and the Zoological Society of London regarding a collection for the Society being shipped from Colombo to Calcutta by Mr Osman Hill

Formal note of thanks from James Prinsep of the Asiatic Society of Bengal, for the Zoological Society of London Proceedings for 1832 and part of 1833

Letters from Grindlay and Co to Philip Lutley Sclater regarding the transport of animals and birds from Calcutta