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Letter from W B Legros to David William Mitchell regarding a present sent by the Zoological Society to Colonel Bonford and an assurance that Colonel Bonford has in his care the animals gifted by the late Viceroy of Egypt to the Zoological Society of London. Also thanks from Mr Murray for a copy of 'Views'

Letter from the Secretary to E Paice regarding a complaint about the noise of the animals in the Zoological Gardens

List of desired animals from south, southeast and east Africa

Correspondence with the Maharajah of Baroda regarding a collection of animals to be given to the Zoological Society of London

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

Correspondence with Leonard Harrison Matthews regarding meetings of the Zoological Society of London, animal accommodation, Scientific Fellows, the acquisition of animals, making Prince Philip a member of the Zoological Club, papers put forward to the Publications Committee, Giant Pandas in Peking, a possible presentation of animals to Delhi Zoo, Research Fellowships and Research Studentships, the Congress on Animal Reproduction, the sex ratio of mammalian births, and newsletters

Memorandum by the Garden and Whipsnade Committee on accommodation for animals in the Gardens

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

Letters from Rajendra Mullick to David William Mitchell giving thanks for a shipment of birds shipped from the Zoological Society of London and reports on zoology, and birds and animals onboard the Prince of Wales for the Zoological Society of London

Letters from Rajendra Mullick to Philip Lutley Sclater regarding the arrival of the steamer 'Hydaspes' with herds and animals from the Zoological Society of London