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Letters from Alfred Russel Wallace to Philip Lutley Sclater regarding the purchase of a joint residential estate, extracts read at meetings of the Zoological Society of London, papers for the Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London and Natural Science, his publication on 'Monkeys - their structure, affinities and distribution', a shipment of birds for the Society, improvements to the Gardens of the Zoological Society of London, notes on the Umbrella Bird, his election as a Fellow, papers on marine mammals, opinions on theories by Darwin, Birds of Paradise, and a list of butterflies of Costa Rica

Correspondence American Express and Geoffrey Marr Vevers regarding animals being shipped to the Zoological Society of London, including mink on board the SS Corrales, a white owl on SS Empire McCullum, a collection of animals aboard the SS Isipingo, a sloth bear cub from Bombay on SS Mantola, five monkeys on SS Isipingo, a bear cub on SS Mantola, animals on SS Deido, kangaroos on SS Rivercrest, animals aboard SS Tarkwa, caotimundis and capybara on SS Arakaka, a leopard on SS Congonia, a bandicoot on SS Brittanic, a shipment on SS Freetown, an ocelot and owl on Arakaka

Correspondence between K F Moorhouse Ltd and Geoffrey Marr Vevers regarding the introduction of a Monkey House into the Aquarium at Brighton Aquarium

Correspondence between the Yellow Fever Research Institute in Entebbe, Uganda and Geoffrey Marr Vevers regarding a shipment of Monkeys and Red River Hog for the Zoological Society of London

Correspondence between R E Glover and George Soper Cansdale regarding the supply of West African monkeys for research work in England

Correspondence between Mr and Mrs G Bouch and George Soper Cansdale regarding the donation of a White Nosed Monkey to the Zoological Society of London

Correspondence between R R Glanville and George Soper Cansdale regarding collecting monkeys in Sierra Leone

Correspondence with Geoffrey Marr Vevers regarding general queries such as specimens of Hedgehogs, Birds of Prey, fencing for Bison, samples of bark, the flea Hectopsylla psittaci, insuring animals, big game hunters, a Llama cart, the well in the Zoological Gardens, cattle guards, the caring of monkeys as pets, a Tree Kangaroo named Minnie, the temperature in the Monkey House, bird life of the Cocos Islands, the bodies of Goldfish, measurements of the eyes of animals, photographs of the Penguin Pool and a broadcast on Children's Hour

Correspondence with Geoffrey Marr Vevers regarding queries about mammals such as an offer of a Lioness for mating, the measurements of Camels, Toto the Lesser Kudu, Mink breeders, Monkeys from East Africa, Quaggas, the gestation period of a Giraffe, Horned Hares, and domesticating the Paca and Capybara

Correspondence between E F Pullinger and Geoffrey Marr Vevers regarding the import of monkeys