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Correspondence between B Bevis and George Soper Cansdale regarding the offer of a White Nosed Monkey from West Africa to the Zoological Society of London

Correspondence between Carr Hartley and George Soper Cansdale regarding the collecting and sale of animals from Kenya

Correspondence between A Miller and George Soper Cansdale regarding a request for Ostriches from West Africa for the Zoological Society of London

Letters from Sir Frederick William Adolphus Bruce to David William Mitchell regarding the gift of a female hippopotamus from Egypt for the Zoological Society of London

Letters from Arnold Jerome Matthews to Philip Lutley Sclater regarding an expedition to the Gabon for the purpose of procuring some young living specimens of the gorilla, then available to purchase by the Zoological Society of London

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 regarding the importation of wild animals and birds from Abyssinia including Gelada Baboons and Royal Starlings

Correspondence between Dr J Richard Hudson and Geoffrey Marr Vevers regarding a young giraffe named Twiga which was sent to the Zoological Society of London from the Veterinary Research Laboratory in Kabete, Kenya

Correspondence between ZSL Library and Geoffrey Marr Vevers regarding a report about Congo Elephants to be deposited in the Library, the return of a book to the Library called 'Wild Animals in Captivity, a collection of photographs taken by the husband of Cherry Kearton, and a donation of engravings from Lady Smith Woodward

Correspondence between United States Lines and Geoffrey Marr Vevers regarding a consignment of animals on the Russell R Jones