Correspondence between Jack Lester and George Soper Cansdale regarding collecting animals in Njala
Personal and professional letters to Joan Procter. Many of the letters have their original envelopes. There are a few replies. Includes pressed flowers from R Pascoli; and a photograph of Franz Werner. Some letters are signed only with first names
Dear Miss Buckland
If you per Mit me to try to Mit-igate
the wildness of Mit I hope you
will ad-Mit that I re-Mit her in a
Mit-igated condition - if not we
must make out a Mit-timus &
send her to a Mit-tan
Pray send her in her Mittens
Yours ever
J.B.
Letters from Professor Dr J J Hess of Zurich to Patrick Alfred Buxton, regarding the correct forms of the Arabic names of reptiles and mammals, and general notes on transliteration and the use of diacritical points
Correspondence between Henry Gascoyne Maurice, Maud L Davys and Lieutenant Colonel G I Davys regarding a dispute with the Officers of the Zoological Society of London
Correspondence about Arabian Oryx conservation and reintroduction
Correspondence between Carl Hagenbeck and George Soper Cansdale regarding whether animals that had been shipped to London on loan, could be replaced or returned to Hagenbeck before expiration of the three years stipulated
Letter regarding a shipment of Hedgehogs from the Zoological Society of London to the Zoological Society of Philadelphia
Correspondence between the Royal Society of Ireland and George Soper Cansdale regarding an exchange of Brown Pelicans and Canadian Black Bear cubs for Giraffes or a Camel