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Letter from S J Merriman of Brasenose College conveying an offer from an ornithologist he met in the summer in Shetlands to catch for the Zoological Society of London a number of specified seabirds breeding in the islands

Letters from W J Schalabear from Havanna regarding explanatory sketches to illustrate the paper showing the economy of the genus Urania, two species of lizards he thought to be Ptyodactylus but look like Spheriodactylus, and the death of a man in Havanna called Douglas who was sent to collect specimens for Dr Hooker but contracted fever (the British Consul had what specimens he had collected)

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 N Melton to David William Mitchell regarding a shipment of crown birds, a monkey and a scotchman bird for the Zoological Society of London

Letter from Alfred Newton to David William Mitchell regarding a shipment of two deerhound and two turkey cocks from St Croix to the Zoological Society of London

4 letters from unknown authors to David William Mitchell regarding membership of the Zoological Society of London, a large blood hound for the Society and the transportation of animals

Letters from Arthur Herbert to Philip Lutley Sclater regarding the collections of Graham Kerr left on board the Bolivia

Correspondence between J R Davis and Philip Lutley Sclater regarding the transport of the elephant and Burmese Bronzes

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

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