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Bolkay, St J
CUR/3/1/7 · File · 1923
Part of Curators and Keepers

Letter from St J Bolkay regarding Joan Procter leaving the British Museum

SUP/6/1/2/3 · File · 1950
Part of Superintendents

Correspondence between the British Museum (Natural History) and George Soper Cansdale regarding specimens donated by the Zoological Society of London to the British Museum (Natural History)

SEC/11/1/7 · File · 1942-1943
Part of ZSL Secretaries

Correspondence between the British Museum (Natural History) and Sheffield Airey Neave regarding delegates to the Conference on Nature Preservation in Post-War Reconstruction, and a meeting of the Council

SUP/5/1/2/36 · File · 1946
Part of Superintendents

Correspondence between British Museum (Natural History) and Geoffrey Marr Vevers regarding a report of a Black-Headed Gull to the Bird-Ringing Committee at the British Museum of Natural History, articles on Okapi by Reginald Innes Pocock, an account of the baby Dendrohyrax by Cecil Stanley Webb , Antarctic Seals, skins and skulls of small carnivores, the fox which the Zoological Society of London received from Tel Aviv Gardens, an exhibition of Tree Hyraxes, exhibits for Major Cottam, donations of specimens to the British Museum (Natural History), mongoose skins, Tangier Smith's location in Sze Chuan to locate the original Pandas, the release of Kodiak Bears at Whipsnade Zoo, publications by Doubleday on the Giant Panda, rings for a Golden Eagle from the Bird-Ringing Committee, the species of Monkey from Northern Nigeria, a Leopard from the Himalayas, measurements of the Kodiak Bears called Kam and Schatka at Whipsnade, and a donation of Hedgehogs to the USA

Burton, Decimus
SEC/2/1/14 · File · 1834-1835
Part of ZSL Secretaries

Letters from Decimus Burton to Edward Turner Bennett regarding his brother's giraffe, the location of the parrot cage, drawings of the museum, the risk of fires, and the meeting of the creditors of the Colosseum

Clerk, George, Sir
SEC/6/16 · File · 1850
Part of ZSL Secretaries

Letters from Sir George Clerk to David William Mitchell regarding the Chancellor of the Exchequer and the purchase of a museum collection of the Zoological Society of London

Correspondence
PRE/6/1/8 · File · 1959
Part of ZSL Presidents

Correspondence between Sir Arthur Landsborough Thomson and L Harrison Matthews regarding Council Meetings, a proposed educational exhibit, a museum of the Zoological Society of London, the Scientific Fellowship, and the Department of Zoology in Cambridge

Coryndon Museum
CUR/7/3/4 · File · 1949
Part of Curators and Keepers

Correspondence with the Coryndon Museum regarding the sale of an Ostrich to the Zoological Society of London, and the offer of a Cricetomys and a Hinged Tortoise

de Beer, Gavin
SEC/13/1/34 · File · 1957
Part of ZSL Secretaries

Letter from Gavin de Beer of the British Museum (Natural History) regarding Desmond Morris and Congo

Dunn, Emmett Reid
CUR/3/1/18 · File · 1923
Part of Curators and Keepers

Letter from Emmett Reid Dunn of the Department of Zoology, Smith College, Massachusetts, regarding her resignation from the British Museum