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Yarrell, William
SEC/2/1/82 · File · 1834-1835
Part of ZSL Secretaries

Letters from William Yarrell regarding a heraldic question raised by Edward Turner Bennett, an unspecified dispute which had been considered at a meeting of the Council at Grosvenor Square, and a manuscript of Walcott's 'British Birds' asking Bennett to allow the dates 1784 and 1785 to stand since Walcott left Teignmouth for Chelsea in 1786 and was resident in Chelsea in 1787

Warwick, John
SEC/6/58 · File · 1847
Part of ZSL Secretaries

Articles of Agreement and correspondence between John Warwick with the Zoological Society of London and the Earl of Derby regarding a voyage to Egypt and Nubia to procure live animals and birds for the Zoological Society of Lonon

Wallace, Alfred Russel
SEC/7/22/3 · File · 1850-1901
Part of ZSL Secretaries

Letters from Alfred Russel Wallace to Philip Lutley Sclater regarding the purchase of a joint residential estate, extracts read at meetings of the Zoological Society of London, papers for the Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London and Natural Science, his publication on 'Monkeys - their structure, affinities and distribution', a shipment of birds for the Society, improvements to the Gardens of the Zoological Society of London, notes on the Umbrella Bird, his election as a Fellow, papers on marine mammals, opinions on theories by Darwin, Birds of Paradise, and a list of butterflies of Costa Rica

United Services Museum
SEC/2/1/75 · File · 1835
Part of ZSL Secretaries

Letter from the Secretary of the United Services Museum, accompanying two specimens of birds killed in Mexico and of a Scoter killed at Southampton. The letter asks the Zoological Society of London to inspect and return them

Thompson, James
SEC/6/56 · File · 1856-1857
Part of ZSL Secretaries

Correspondence between James Thompson, Head Keeper at London Zoo, and David William Mitchell regarding the expense to carry out the experiment of rearing mammals and birds in the Hill Country for transmission to Enland, and the transmission of a collection of Himalayan pheasants to the Zoological Society of London

Sundevall, Carl Jacob
SEC/7/18/47 · File · 1870-1871
Part of ZSL Secretaries

Letters from Carl Jacob Sundevall, Director of the Royal Museum Stockholm, to Philip Lutley Sclater regarding specimens found in the Museum such as Galapagos birds

Ruppell, Edmund
SEC/2/1/67 · File · 1832-1835
Part of ZSL Secretaries

Letters from Edmund Ruppell, a German citizen from Frankfort, giving appreciation for receipt of his diploma as a foreign member of the Zoological Society of London, Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, comments on his discoveries such as a new variety of Gasteropod, a list of mammals and birds 'our museum wishes to get from England' receipt of the 1934 Proceedings, the first volume of museum catalogue, and his wish to complete the exchange

Rothschild, Lionel Walter
SEC/7/17/24 · File · 1892-1903
Part of ZSL Secretaries

Letters from Lionel Walter Rothschild, 2nd Baron Rothschild, to Philip Lutley Sclater regarding an expedition to the Sandwich Islands, papers on birds of the Sandwich Islands, drawings of a Rail, ornithological exhibitions, the sale of a rhinoceros, his drawing of a rhinoceros to be published in the Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, his Cassowaries at Tring, a transfer of Tragelaphus, Galapagos Tortoises, Eclectus Parrots, Lemurs and Zebras

Reid, Thomas Mayne
SEC/7/17/9 · File · 1878-1883
Part of ZSL Secretaries

Letters from Thomas Mayne Reid to Philip Lutley Sclater regarding his sale of Jacob Sheep and books or papers about British birds

Porter, Sir Robert Ker
SEC/2/1/62 · File · 1833-1834
Part of ZSL Secretaries

Letters from Sir Robert Ker Porter in Caracas thanking Bennett for the his letter and Proceedings of the Society's committees, the good health of a tapir, a bear belonging to a resident in Caracas, a bird called Curapoas (or Forvies), the shipment of a Capuchin Monkey, 'a very curious little animals of the weasel kind, and six land tortoises by the Brig 'Pedraza', a consignment he received save for the weasel which was washed overboard, and descriptions of the consignment in the 'Pedraza'