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Correspondence regarding the importation of wild animals and birds from Abyssinia including Gelada Baboons and Royal Starlings

Letters from Sir Frederick William Adolphus Bruce to David William Mitchell regarding the gift of a female hippopotamus from Egypt for the Zoological Society of London

Correspondence between Stanley Smyth Flower and Patrick Alfred Buxton of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine requesting information on poisonous snakes of Egypt, Libya and the Barbary States

Correspondence between J Carberry and Geoffrey Marr Vevers regarding Garbo the Bush Pig and other animals sent from Kenya to the Zoological Society of London

Correspondence between S R Cleland-Scott and Geoffrey Marr Vevers regarding the purchase and shipping of a lion from Kenya to the Zoological Society of London called The Last Straw, and a male Leopard called Alexander

Correspondence between the Colonial Office in London and Geoffrey Marr Vevers regarding air passage for collectors travelling to Africa on behalf of the Zoological Society of London

Correspondence between Sir Arthur Landsborough Thomson and L Harrison Matthews regarding applications for the appointment as Veterinary Pathologist at the Zoological Society of London, Scientific Meetings, articles on Gambia, Gophers, the selection of recipients of the John Scott Medal Award, and the sequence of families in the systematic part of the Aves Zoo

Correspondence between Sir Arthur Landsborough Thomson and L Harrison Matthews regarding Scientific Meetings, meetings of the Publications Committee, David Attenborough's talk again his Madagascar trip, draft minutes, and candidates for the Scientific Fellowship

Letter from J Deal regarding his visit to the Gardens of the Zoological Society of London in August. He did not see species of guinea fowl he had brought from upper Gambia so offers a pair to the Zoological Society of London

Correspondence between the Dominions Office and Geoffrey Marr Vevers requesting Penguins and Cranes from South Africa for the Zoological Society of London