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Correspondence between the Zoological Garden in Alipore and the Zoological Society of London regarding a collection for the Society being shipped from Colombo to Calcutta by Mr Osman Hill

Letter from G O Wooler saying that he had come up from Wolsingham to see his son Joseph, who had been in Bombay and had brought back a Black Dog (domesticated in Bombay although of the species Parish - wild dog). He considers that it is what Captain Williams calls a Dhole, which usually go in packs

Letters from the United Planters Association of Southern India to Philip Lutley Sclater regarding attempts to introduce appropriate varieties of Ladybirds from Australia for the extermination of certain scale pests

Letters from James Thompson to Philip Lutley Sclater regarding the purchase of items for an expedition to India

Letters from Gerald Chetwynd Talbot, Private Secretary to the Governor General of India, to David William Mitchell regarding occurrences in the upper provinces of India which prevent the sending of Himalayan birds to England and the agent sent to Calcutta by the Zoological Society of London, a wild goat sent for presentation to Prince Albert, and a collection of hill birds for Prince Albert

Letters from John Hanning Speke to Philip Lutley Sclater regarding animals found in Tibet

Letters from Alexander Shaw to David William Mitchell regarding tigers from Bombay sent to the Zoological Society of London

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

Correspondence declining the offer of a Tibetan Bear by Sir Antony Rumbold to the Zoological Society of London

Formal note of thanks from James Prinsep of the Asiatic Society of Bengal, for the Zoological Society of London Proceedings for 1832 and part of 1833