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Letter from Henry Francis Ainslie to Philip Lutley Sclater about plans for the erection by the Zoological Society of a new 'cats house or house for lions, tigers, and other large Felidae.'

Correspondence between Lieutenant Binfield and Geoffrey Marr Vevers regarding a Royal Bengal Tiger offered to the Zoological Society of London

Letters from Herbert Thomas Dicksee to Philip Lutley Sclater regarding tickets for the gardens of the Zoological Society of London and his etched plates of lions and tigers, proofs of which he offered to the Society

Letter from William Dumbreck to David William Mitchell offering to dispose of a tiger from the Edinburgh collection

Correspondence between Alfred Ezra and Geoffrey Marr Vevers regarding a suggestion that tigers are cannibals and Ezra going back on the Council of the Zoological Society of London. Also a newsletter of The New York Zoological Society

Letter to Ganpat Rao Gaekwad, Guicowar of Baroda, from the Zoological Society of London to acknowledge the safe arrival of a pair of tigers

Correspondence between Gaekwar of Baroda and George Soper Cansdale regarding the Maharaja presenting a Tiger cub to the Zoological Society of London

Correspondence with Khan Wild Animal Farm regarding the supply of animals, such as two Royal Bengal Tiger Cubs which were sent to Dudley Zoological Society

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

Correspondence between Sir James Outram and David William Mitchell regarding an offer of tigers and a request for game birds, hunting cheetahs, the common leopard, hyenas, jackals and wolves