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Letters from Abraham Dee Bartlett to Philip Lutley Sclater regarding the doors to the new elephant house, animal food consumption, the female rhinoceros, the mounted specimen of a young gorilla, authorisation to sell Alice the elephant to Mr Barnum, and the theft of an owl

Letter from John Colam of the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, to Philip Lutley Sclater regarding the serpent feeding in the reptile house being a healthy amusement for children and young persons

Correspondence between the Duke of Bedford and Geoffrey Marr Vevers regarding the exchange of animals between the Zoological Society of London and Woburn Safari Park, information about Chillingham Cattle and supporting the herd, the feeding of deer, the Duke of Bedford becoming a Member of the Council of the Zoological Society of London, pheasants and water fowl from the Continent, meetings of the Council, Pere David's Deer, and the importation of a European Bison bull from Poland for the Duke of Bedford

Correspondence between Brian Vesey Fitzgerald and Geoffrey Marr Vevers on feeding bats for a research project on malaria in bats in Palestine

Letters from Hussey, H C to Philip Lutley Sclater regarding the feeding of goats to the python at the Zoological Society of London

Correspondence between the Institute of Child Health at the University of London and the Zoological Society of London regarding observations of infant feeding in the Gardens

Letters from the International Exhibition of Selected Works of Fine and Industrial Art and Scientific Inventions and Philip Lutley Sclater regarding cooperation in the plans of the commissioners and the formation of a collection of live specimens of the best breeds of home and foreign animals whose wools and principally used in the woollen and worsted manufacturers. Also a plan of the animal enclosures and estimate of food

Letters from the Zoological Society of London to the Ministry of Food regarding requirements of fish for the feeding of the sea-lions and fish-eating birds

Correspondence between the Ministry of Food and Geoffrey Marr Vevers regarding the supply of rations to a small circus which included a travelling zoo and a campaign against the waste of bread, with a request to display posters throughout the Gardens

Correspondence between Moscow Zoo and Geoffrey Marr Vevers regarding the exchange of animals between the Zoological Society of London and Moscow Zoo. Also an article by V V Chernomordikov called 'On inherent and acquired food reactions in reptiles'