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Correspondence with Peter Humphries of the Embassy of the Republic of Indonesia, regarding immobilising wild animals

Letters from J Neeves regarding an Anas Cygna or Chin Chow Goose, a letter from Mr Acali referring to the new Purple Headed Pheasant, a little tortoise that belonged to his daughter which he asked the Zoological Society of London to take charge of in his absence, his son who had been in China to procure a Medallion Pheasant and some bird skins sent by his son for the Zoological Society of London

Letters from Frederic Brine to Philip Lutley Sclater regarding the living conditions of a gorilla, a sacred white elephant which was said to have been in Siam but which he refuted, and the height and weight of Jumbo and Jenny

Letters from Frederick Courteney Selous to Philip Lutley Sclater regarding his papers, notes on his egg collecting trip to Asia Minor, admission to the Gardens of the Zoological Society of London, a donation towards the International Congress of Zoology, notes on the red Rhebuck, meetings the Zoological Society of London, the horns of a white rhinoceros, his election as a corresponding member of the Society and accounts of his travels

Correspondence with the Maharajah of Baroda regarding a collection of animals to be given to the Zoological Society of London

Correspondence declining the offer of a Tibetan Bear by Sir Antony Rumbold to the Zoological Society of London

Letters from James Thompson to Philip Lutley Sclater regarding the purchase of items for an expedition to India

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

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

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