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Letter from Edgar Chatterton to Philip Lutley Sclater regarding no longer being able to view the animals behind the cages following reports in the newspapers about the way in which the reptiles were being fed in the reptile house

Paper by the Collections Policy Committee of the Zoological Society of London on the future policy on the acquisition of rare animals

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

Letter from Walter Hamilton Goodfellow to Philip Lutley Sclater, apologising for stealing a bird from London Zoo

Letter from S N A Drummond Hay regarding the shipping of animals by HM sloop 'Procuris', preliminary notice of proposed shipment of animals via Gibraltar, a few specimens that have been sent via a friend and agent in Gibraltar, thanks for the volume of Desmarish and confirmation that they will send to the Zoological Society of London every rare animal within their reach

Letter from Horlock to the Superintendent of the Zoological Society of London Garden asking for instructions as to transport by sea and enquiries as to the price of animals to be disposed of

The work undertaken by Dr Honigmann had two main aims; the first was to examine certain theoretical assumptions on the science of nutrition, and the second was to see whether the nutrition of the animals kept at Regent's Park could be improved either qualitatively or quantitatively

Letter from J Lang of the Manchester branch of the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, to William Lutley Sclater regarding the feeding of snakes at the Zoological Society of London

Letter from F Lawrence, honorary secretary of the Church Society for the Promotion of Kindness to Animals, to Peter Chalmers Mitchell regarding an article in the Daily Chronicle about the treatment of animals in the zoo

Letter from W B Legros to David William Mitchell regarding a present sent by the Zoological Society to Colonel Bonford and an assurance that Colonel Bonford has in his care the animals gifted by the late Viceroy of Egypt to the Zoological Society of London. Also thanks from Mr Murray for a copy of 'Views'