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SEC/11/2/6/3 · File · 1946
Part of ZSL Secretaries

Report of a meeting between the Trustees of the British Museum and the representatives of the Museum Conference of Naturalists, with correspondence, a memorandum on the problem of combining the administrative and technical or scientific direction of National Museums with special reference to the British Museum (Natural History) and papers from meetings

Owen, Richard, Sir
SEC/7/15/6 · File · 1864-1881
Part of ZSL Secretaries

Letters from Sir Richard Owen to Philip Lutley Sclater on subjects such as plates of the Dodo, papers on bird bones, notes on the dissection of a penguin, cetacean drawings, chambered shells, drawings of birds from Madras, photographs of harpagornis and his papers on diornis

Paper on Okapis
SEC/9/2/27/4 · Item · 13 Sep 1934
Part of ZSL Secretaries

Paper on Okapis for consideration at the Garden Committee and Council Meetings on the 18th an 19th September 1934

Selous, Frederick Courteney
SEC/7/18/21 · File · 1881-1900
Part of ZSL Secretaries

Letters from Frederick Courteney Selous to Philip Lutley Sclater regarding his papers, notes on his egg collecting trip to Asia Minor, admission to the Gardens of the Zoological Society of London, a donation towards the International Congress of Zoology, notes on the red Rhebuck, meetings the Zoological Society of London, the horns of a white rhinoceros, his election as a corresponding member of the Society and accounts of his travels

Wallace, Alfred Russel
SEC/7/22/3 · File · 1850-1901
Part of ZSL Secretaries

Letters from Alfred Russel Wallace to Philip Lutley Sclater regarding the purchase of a joint residential estate, extracts read at meetings of the Zoological Society of London, papers for the Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London and Natural Science, his publication on 'Monkeys - their structure, affinities and distribution', a shipment of birds for the Society, improvements to the Gardens of the Zoological Society of London, notes on the Umbrella Bird, his election as a Fellow, papers on marine mammals, opinions on theories by Darwin, Birds of Paradise, and a list of butterflies of Costa Rica