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Letters from Winifred Johnston to Philip Lutley Sclater regarding her paroquet that she wished to deposit at the gardens of the Zoological Society of London and the death of Dinduna, her baboon

Letters from James Murie to Philip Lutley Sclater regarding the death of a giraffe from mouth disease, his monograph on Otaria, and his memoirs on the walrus, kagu, hyaena, pilot whale, otaria and manatee

Papers and proposed address to HM King George V on the twenty-fifth anniversary of the beginning of His Majesty's Reign, and extracts from the Minutes regarding the death of Queen Victoria, Patroness of the Zoological Society of London

Statement by Geoffrey Marr Vevers on the case of Commissionaire W J Sprunt, Gatekeeper at the Gardens of the Zoological Society of London, who may have died from Psittacosis which was caught from Parrots in the Parrot House

Correspondence between Major Albert Pam and the Zoological Society of London regarding an exhibition of domestic animals, the death of Frederick Bond and provision for his widow, a memorandum by the Treasurer for an increase in pay for permanent staff, matters for discussion with Geoffrey Marr Vevers, advertisements for an Assistant Superintendent and application forms, a list of duties for the Assistant Superintendent, lists of senior staff, organisational charts and proposals for an elephant house

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 Catherine Barnes regarding a stuffed specimen of 'Ground Dove'. Says she was attempting to bring Edward Turner Bennett two live humming birds, fed on sugar solution, but both died in a storm

Letters from H Windhorn to Philip Lutley Sclater regarding the transport and death of the Queen's Giraffe

Memorandum by the Secretary on the Refreshment Department following the death of Mr Douglas Ridley, Manager of the Refreshment Department

Correspondence and papers relating to the death of B J Radford, a keeper in the Lion House