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Letter from Magrath regarding plans of a museum. He remarks that they are less expensive than Anglesea or the Duke of Buckingham's House

Letter from W Masters to Joseph Sabine at Bruton Street regarding a present received by Canterbury Museum from S R Lushington, recently returned from India, comprising of 2 Hunt Leopards, 1 Royal Tiger and 2 Black Monkeys. They are currently in the West Indies Docks. The Museum has no facilities for handling them and asks to send for the animals to Regent's Park

Letter from Herbert Mayo accepting his invitation to the dinner for Baron Cuvier

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

Letter from R Merry regarding information on heronry at Crepy Hall. He talks of a series of inheritance disasters and eventual burning down of Crepy Hall

Letter from Charles Middleton apologising for an omission made by a printer in the copy he sent a previous day

Letters from Alexander Miller of the Zoological Gardens regarding a Chinese Pheasant which escaped and had been running in Park Street, Camden Town, an escape from the Dove House, the removal of an oak fence on the southern boundary, the health of a Rhinoceros, the Society's Cashmere Goat, his visit to City Road Basin, the purchase of a Chimpanzee, a visit by the Queen to the Gardens, a stillborn Rhesus Monkey, dimensions of the back of a new den for the Elephant and Rhinoceros, the cost of laying the floor of the Elephant and Rhinoceros House, the death of a Chimpanzee and the return of John Woodbridge with Cranes and Leopards

Letter from Joseph Miller to present 'the Gentleman who belongs to the Zoological Society and whose name he cannot at this moment call to mind - a Lobster...if he thinks it worth his acceptance. If he has any time a ticket or two to spare he and his family, which are numerous, to see the gardens if he thinks them deserving of them.' He will be glad to provide any curious fish to the Society

Letter from Charles Mull to ask if the Zoological Society of London would be willing to take two specimens of grizzly bear

Letter from Charles Murignano regarding a letter which reached him with Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. He hopes for continuation. He notes that he did not receive earlier Proceedings and his membership diploma said he had done so, otherwise he would not have delayed so long in returning thanks for the honour conferred on him