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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

Letters from Edward Smith Stanley regarding matters concerning the government, problems of the Zoological Society of London, supply and exchange of animals, discussion of descriptions and well-being of animals and the hatching of eggs

Letters from Daniel Sharpe regarding his voyage to Lisbon and the Zoological Society of London

Letters from W J Schalabear from Havanna regarding explanatory sketches to illustrate the paper showing the economy of the genus Urania, two species of lizards he thought to be Ptyodactylus but look like Spheriodactylus, and the death of a man in Havanna called Douglas who was sent to collect specimens for Dr Hooker but contracted fever (the British Consul had what specimens he had collected)

Letters from John Sabine regarding the housing of the Rhinoceros and Tapir, conversations with Fuller about a larger repository for the greater carnivores, committee meetings of the Zoological Society of London and the dismissal of the head gardener and his recommendation of Morris Burr as his successor

Letters from Edmund Ruppell, a German citizen from Frankfort, giving appreciation for receipt of his diploma as a foreign member of the Zoological Society of London, Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, comments on his discoveries such as a new variety of Gasteropod, a list of mammals and birds 'our museum wishes to get from England' receipt of the 1934 Proceedings, the first volume of museum catalogue, and his wish to complete the exchange

Letter from J Forbes Royle regarding an oration at the opening of London University. Sends a useful addition to your collection of drawings

Letter accepting the invitation to Baron Cuvier's dinner

Letters from William Rees in Brutentt regarding the arrival of three camels and four ostriches which arrived in good condition, and a payment of £30 from Mr Cross's secretary for the ostrich delivered to him the day before. Also, Mr Cross had a male Ling Ling and a female Virginian Deer which he wished to exchange

Formal note of thanks from James Prinsep of the Asiatic Society of Bengal, for the Zoological Society of London Proceedings for 1832 and part of 1833