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Correspondence with Phra Abhaivonge regarding the purchase of animals by the Zoological Society of London, including a pair of Pileated Gibbons, Peacock Pheasants and Spectacled Langurs

Correspondence between Mrs A Brown and Geoffrey Marr Vevers regarding a request for a pair of Wallabies, and payment for a pair of Reeves pheasants and an Edwards Cock

Correspondence between L G Brown and George Soper Cansdale regarding a donation of a Silver Pheasant to the Zoological Society of London

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 the Foo Kee Trading Company and George Soper Cansdale regarding the supply of Mikado Pheasants, Baikal Teal, Formosan Tree Partridge and Formosan Bamboo Partridge to the Zoological Society of London

Correspondence between Gaybird Pheasant Farm and George Soper Cansdale regarding a consignment of birds sent to Major Hendy in Swaziland

Letter from Major-General Sir John Bennett Hearsey to David William Mitchell regarding pheasants and other rare birds for the Zoological Society of London

Correspondence between Henniker Smith & Co. and Geoffrey Marr Vevers regarding the deaths of pheasants due to rat poison

Correspondence between John Houston, David William Mitchell and the South Australian Banking Company regarding the sale of birds and a request by Prince Albert to bring a Platypus, Lyre Tailed Pheasant and Black Mackaw to the Zoological Society of London

Letters from Murray M Johnson to Philip Lutley Sclater regarding the Zoological Society of London being liable for a surveyor's fee, the Society's position as tenants, sewers and drains in the gardens, a bill in chancery regarding pheasants which were claimed by the Acclimatisation Society, the lease for the piece of ground on the north side of the canal, the purchase of premises situated in Hanover Square and Oxford Street, and Regent's Canal railway