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Letter from Frederick Dixon to Philip Lutley Sclater regarding a wild cat sent to the Zoological Society of London by Brigadier General Sir Herbert Kitchener

Letter from H Dormenberg to Philip Lutley Sclater, and draft reply, regarding the price of eider-ducks

Letter from John M Down to Philip Lutley Sclater regarding his shipment of live specimens of Bairds Tapir

Letter from W Drewett to Edward Turner Bennett regarding a few parrots and two pairs of Egyptian Geese that he has been able to buy. If the Zoological Society of London could spare a crowned crane, the Council would like to have one

Letter from Wynfrid Laurence Henry Duckworth to Philip Lutley Sclater regarding his possible purchase of a gorilla which had arrived in London

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

Letter from Captain J G Green to offer a specimen of a barn door hen which had developed cock plumage to the Zoological Society of London

Letter from John Green to David William Mitchell regarding the transport of the hippopotamus on the 'Ripon' for the Zoological Society of London

Letter from Carl Hagenbeck to Peter Chalmers Mitchell regarding his shipment of a buffalo to the Zoological Society of London

Letter from William Tyler Hamilton saying the elephant had arrived and appeared least worse for it. It was a valuable addition to the collection. They are likely to lost the last fine male as it was showing signs of enlargement of the epiglottis which proved fatal in the female