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Letters from Alexander Agassiz to Philip Lutley Sclater about the collections of British Museum and Jardin du Plantes, Paris

Letters from John Anderson to Philip Lutley Sclater regarding the Indian Museum in Calcutta

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

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

Correspondence between the British Museum (Natural History) and Sheffield Airey Neave regarding delegates to the Conference on Nature Preservation in Post-War Reconstruction, and a meeting of the Council

Letter from Edward Burton to say that he has discovered changes to a specimen on which he had prepared a draft paper. He suggests change of scientific name accordingly

Letters from Arthur Gardiner Butler to Philip Lutley Sclater regarding attendance at committee meetings and illustrations for publications

Letter from Philip Hermogenes Calderon to Philip Lutley Sclater requesting a card permitting his son, William Francis Calderon, to sketch lions and leopards at the Zoological Society of London

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 John Collier to Philip Lutley Sclater regarding permission to paint in the Zoological Gardens