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Letters from Wilhelm Carl Hartwig Peters of the Museum Regium Zoologicum, to Philip Lutley Sclater regarding Huxley's paper, a sketch of the plan of the monkey house, plates, specimens in his possession, and his memoirs

Correspondence between the Museum of Zoology at the University of Cambridge and Geoffrey Marr Vevers regarding eggs for the egg-tasting panel, and a donation of grass snakes to the Museum of Zoology

Letter regarding notes on various lizards and a West African Echis

Correspondence between Pat Maxwell and George Soper Cansdale regarding sending dead snakes to the Royal Albert Memorial Museum at Exeter

Letter from W Masters to Joseph Sabine at Bruton Street regarding a present received by Canterbury Museum from S R Lushington, recently returned from India, comprising of 2 Hunt Leopards, 1 Royal Tiger and 2 Black Monkeys. They are currently in the West Indies Docks. The Museum has no facilities for handling them and asks to send for the animals to Regent's Park

Letter from Magrath regarding plans of a museum. He remarks that they are less expensive than Anglesea or the Duke of Buckingham's House

Letter from Sir George Cornewall Lewis to David William Mitchell regarding the Treasury not being prepared to purchase the collection of the Museum of the Zoological Society of London

Letters from William Saville Kent of the Museum and Institute of Pisciculture Society Limited, to Philip Lutley Sclater regarding the establishment of a marine observatory and laboratory in connection with the Brighton Aquarium, his appointment as Inspector of Fisheries to the Government of Tasmania, his application to become a Fellow of the Zoological Society of London, his inspection of the fish house, enquiries about the vacant post of Prosector, and a proposed British Zoological Station for the study of marine animals and plats with relation to the advancement of the sciences of biology and economic pisciculture

Letters from Thomas de Grey to Philip Lutley Sclater regarding his expedition down the Rocky Mountains into New Mexico, skeletons of mammals for the Cambridge museum, and a paper on West Indian Microlepidoptera for the Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London