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1840

My dear Ogilby

Your letter came to me while I was at Cambridge - I am sorry I cannot be at the Committee tonight: tho points I have to offer to your and the Committee's notice respecting the big birds bone are simply my conviction that it is an extinct Struthious Bird about the age of the Dodo. It is [associated] in interest with the Apteryx from the same locality - a short paper and one plate.

Believe me
ever your truly
Rd. Owen

Tuesday Morng.

Letter to David Seth Smith to put on record that the Council of the Zoological Society of London wishes consultation to take place between the Superintendent, Curator of Mammals and Birds, and the Assistant Treasurer regarding expenses

Report on elephant enclosures, temperatures in various houses such as antelope and cattle sheds, possible overcrowding in bears' enclosures, inmates of cattle and deer sheds, the health of otters and coypus, numbers in the bird house and aviaries, bird house temperatures and the Three Island Pond

Letter from Croizet bird dealers to Philip Lutley Sclater

Letter from Allan, Deffell & Co. to David William Mitchell requesting assistance for Mr James Thompson and a collection of birds and some quadrapeds

Papers by the new Bird House Sub-Committee

Plans relating to proposed garden improvements, with papers regarding the future of the parrot collection, a report by the curator of mammals and birds and Parrot House plans

Report by the Curator of Mammals and Birds following his attendance at the International Ornithological Congress in Rouen and Paris

List of birds presented to the Zoological Society of London by Alfred Ezra

Letter from Georgina Hamilton Goodfellow to Philip Lutley Sclater regarding her husband, Mr Hamilton Goodfellow, who was detained on the charge of having stolen a bird from London Zoo