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Letters from P L Strachan of the Colonial Civil Service regarding his arrival in Sierra Leone, having been shipwrecked on 'the West India Islands', the deaths of the five African Woodcocks that he was bringing, the survival of a large scorpion (which may have accompanied the letter, a shipment of alligators and a mud turtle. Also comments that Bennett had not mentioned Mr Actin Governor ole and his brother having been admitted as Fellows

Correspondence with Rio Grande Park Zoo regarding the acquisition of rare animals, such as Asiatic Rhinos

Edward George Boulenger spent three weeks in America where he visited and studied the aquaria, zoological parks and museums in New York and Chicago

Notes by Julian Huxley on visits to the Zoological Gardens at New York (Bronx Park), Philadelphia, Washington DC, Paris (Vincennes), Hamburg, Berlin, Munich (Hellabrunn) and Frankfort, also the Aquarium at Chicago

Draft notes by Julian Huxley on visits to the Zoological Gardens at New York (Bronx Park), Philadelphia, Washington DC, Paris (Vincennes), Hamburg, Berlin, Munich (Hellabrunn) and Frankfort, also the Aquarium at Chicago

Letters from Sir Charles Lyell to Philip Lutley Sclater regarding the donations of a text regarding Charles Darwin to the Library of the Zoological Society of London, a list of books to be purchased for the Library, the foundation of a zoological society in Boston, Massachusetts, and a request from keepers to read books on natural history and the animals in their care

Letter from Samuel Pierpont Langley of the Smithsonian Institution to Philip Lutley Sclater regarding the establishment of a Zoological Park in the City of Washington

Correspondence with James M Kittleman regarding a vacancy for an Executive Director at the Chicago Zoological Park

Letters from Charles Kingsley to Philip Lutley Sclater regarding naturalists in Denver, Colorado, specimens for the Zoological Society of London, and the paper of the ex-governor of Trinidad

Letters from William Henry Huxley to Philip Lutley Sclater regarding alligators of North America and other matters