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Letter from the Secretary of the United Services Museum, accompanying two specimens of birds killed in Mexico and of a Scoter killed at Southampton. The letter asks the Zoological Society of London to inspect and return them

Correspondence between Union Castle Mail Steamship Co. Ltd and Geoffrey Marr Vevers regarding a shipment of Snakes, Chameleons, Birds, Penguins and Crane on board the vessel Umtali from Cape Town

Correspondence between James Thompson, Head Keeper at London Zoo, and David William Mitchell regarding the expense to carry out the experiment of rearing mammals and birds in the Hill Country for transmission to Enland, and the transmission of a collection of Himalayan pheasants to the Zoological Society of London

Letter from Frederick Talbot, Secretary of the South Staffordshire Industrial and Fine Arts Exhibition 1869, to Philip Lutley Sclater requesting assistance to show birds and fish during the exhibition

Letters from Carl Jacob Sundevall, Director of the Royal Museum Stockholm, to Philip Lutley Sclater regarding specimens found in the Museum such as Galapagos birds

Correspondence between C R Stoner and George Soper Cansdale regarding an offer to collection mammals and birds for the Zoological Society of London

Correspondence with K C Sen of The Variety of Birds Emporium, regarding shipments of animals to the Zoological Society of London

Correspondence with Peter Scott of The Severn Wildfowl Trust regarding Whoopers for the Princess Royal, a Hawaiian duck, a Black Swan from Sir Winston, an exchange of ducks, methods of preventing birds' flight, Greylag Geese, the Scientific Advisory Committee of The Severn Wildfowl Trust, a Brazilian Teal duck brought by Gerald Durrell, tickets for admission to London Zoo and labels

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

Correspondence between the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals and Geoffrey Marr Vevers regarding a representative of the RSPCA interviewing Webb and Tanner of the Zoological Society of London about a consignment of animals and birds that arrived at Regent's Park from East Africa