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 F Baddeley to Peter Chalmers Mitchell regarding the feeding of goats to serpents in the Gardens of the Zoological Society of London
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
Letter from Edmund B d'Auvergne to Philip Lutley Sclater regarding the feeding of live animals to snakes in the Reptile House
Letter from Alfred Carpenter to Peter Chalmers Mitchell regarding the feeding of snakes in the Gardens of the Zoological Society of London
Letter from Georgiana Eckstein to Philip Lutley Sclater requesting tickets to witness the feeding of reptiles at the Zoological Society of London
Letters from Henry Stephens Salt, Secretary of the Humanitarian League, to Philip Lutley Sclater regarding snake feeding at London Zoo
Letter from I Walker to Philip Lutley Sclater regarding the feeding of live animals to the snakes in the Gardens of the Zoological Society of London
Letter from Richard John Lloyd Price to Philip Lutley Sclater regarding the feeding of pythons at the Zoological Society of London
Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals
Manchester Branch
9 Albert Square
Manchester
October 19th 1903
The Secretary
Zoological Gardens
Regents Park
London
Dear Sir
I am desired by my Committee to write and ask you for information on the following points:-
- Is it a fact that Snakes in the Zool. Gardens at New York are not and never have been fed on live animals?
- Are the Snakes at the Zoo in London fed on live animals, and if so on what kind of animals
- If they are not so fed, what is the nature of the food given them?
- What is your opinion as to food for Snakes. Is it necessary to feed them on living animals, or are all requirements met by feeding them on animals newly killed?
Any information you can give as to these points will be useful to us here and if you can let us have your replies to the above questions we shall be very greatly obliged
Yours faithfully
J. Lang
Sec.