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Letters from Charles Drummond to Edward Turner Bennett regarding proxies and the opening of an account

Edward Turner Bennett was an English zoologist, and the 2nd secretary of the society, in post from 1833-1836.

Letters from Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg, Secretary of Carolinische Akademie de Naturforsche, acknowledging receipt of the Proceedings of the Zoological Society for 1830-31

Letter from John Franklin to apologise for his absence from the dinner of Baron Cuvier

Letter from P J Fuss, Secretary of the Perpetuelle de l'Academie Imperiale des Sciences, giving thanks for Volume I of the Zoological Society of London Transactions

Letter from S Goodall to accept an invitation to a dinner for Baron Cuvier

Letters from John Gould regarding a Zebra that was exhibiting signs of tetanus, the request of a salary of £50 for the new arrangement by the Museum Committee, an expedition to collect specimens for the Zoological Society of London and several gifts to the Society

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 Prof M Guerin referring to the genus Phyllosama with the first number of Zoological Bulletin. He asks for Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London with a view to reviewing them in his Bulletin

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