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Letter regarding a donation of a pair of young Canadian Bear cubs to the Zoological Society of London

Letter from H Woods who says he spoke to Wombwell (a dealer in Commercial Road) about the kangaroo. He would be satisfied with the female and would give an equivalent. He had his eye on a bear in the corner on the left of the elephants. He encloses a drawing of the head of the bear but the den was too dark to see it distinctly

Correspondence between David Turnball-Simpson and George Soper Cansdale regarding negatives of Winnie the Bear, the shipping of a Great Dane and a dispatch of animals from Tehran

Correspondence between David Turnball-Simpson and George Soper Cansdale regarding the donation of a male bear cub (known locally as a Bakhtiary) from South Iran to the Zoological Society of London

Correspondence between the Sultan of Johore and George Soper Cansdale regarding a donation of a male Malay Bear to the Zoological Society of London

Correspondence between Josef Schauer and George Soper Cansdale regarding the purchase of three male bear cubs from the Zoological Society of London

Letters from Edwin Linley Sambourne to Peter Chalmers Mitchell regarding the Bear Pit at the Gardens of the Zoological Society of London and his admission to the Gardens

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

Correspondence between F G Rollason and George Soper Cansdale regarding a Himalayan Bear called Vicky which was presented to the Zoological Society of London in the Spring of 1946 by the 89 Squadron RAF which had been stationed in Singapore

Letters from Sir Robert Ker Porter in Caracas thanking Bennett for the his letter and Proceedings of the Society's committees, the good health of a tapir, a bear belonging to a resident in Caracas, a bird called Curapoas (or Forvies), the shipment of a Capuchin Monkey, 'a very curious little animals of the weasel kind, and six land tortoises by the Brig 'Pedraza', a consignment he received save for the weasel which was washed overboard, and descriptions of the consignment in the 'Pedraza'