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Letters from Charles Jamrach to Philip Lutley Sclater regarding payments for animals including a bison and lions

Reports and correspondence relating to an epidemic of Psittacosis amongst the Parrots at London Zoo which resulted in the death of William J Sprunt

Black and white and colour photographs, mainly of various zoos, including Frankfurt, Berlin, Jersey, Antwerp, Stuttgart, Bristol, Paignton, Thoiry, Ueno (Tokyo) and Singapore, as well as images of herpetological specimens in captivity

Correspondence with Mrs Eames regarding the donation of a fox as a pet in the TV Unit or London Zoo

Letter to G Iles of Belle Vue Zoo in Manchester regarding J Seago leaving for East Africa to collect live animals

Correspondence with Elizabeth Evans regarding the offer of her Cockatoo to London Zoo

Correspondence with Carl Hagenbeck regarding the transport of animals on loan between Tierpark in Hamburgh-Stellingen and London Zoo

Correspondence with Otto Focklemann regarding the sale of animals

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

Correspondence with David Attenborough regarding the diet of Giant Pangolins, a Zoo Quest trip to Paraguay and a request for supplies, a collection of birds, Gerald Durrell's hopes to set up a zoo in Jersey, and two bottle-nosed Dolphins that were caught in the Adriatic and taken to Plymouth by the BBC Natural History Unit