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Report, plus Appendix 1 (Presentation on the work of ZSL to staff of NCWCD) and Appendix 2 (Georgina Mace's report on scientific research at KKWRC)

Press releases from the Institute of Zoology regarding the world's first Przewalski Wild Horse born to a surrogate pony, breeding endangered species, a new veterinary hospital at Whipsnade, British wildlife to benefit from health research and a Zoological Society of London scientist winning an International Environment Award

Papers of the Reproduction Department of the Institute of Zoology, including memorandums, correspondence and research programmes

Minutes of the Nuffield Institute of Comparative Medicine Planning Group. A grant had been made by the Trustees of the Nuffield Foundation for the provision of such an Institute at Regent's Park on a side adjoining the Animal Hospital and Pathology Laboratories of the Zoological Society of London, and for the establishment of two senior research fellowships. The object was to make full use of the valuable material derived from the various species of mammals, reptiles, birds, and other animals in the Society's Collections for purposes of comparative medical research

Correspondence with Geoffrey Marr Vevers regarding medical and veterinary supplies such as microscopes and syringes. Also a letter from the Directorate of Medical Supplies at the Ministry of Supply regarding research into a vaccine for Scrub Typhus and a request for Ostrich Eggs.

Correspondence between Philip Manson-Bahr and Geoffrey Marr Vevers regarding research into zoology in relation to tropical medicine, a meeting of the Association of Bird Watchers and Wardens at the Zoological Society of London, and paintings of Birds of Paradise

Correspondence with W P Heuschele, Veterinarian at San Diego Zoological Garden regarding the minutes of a meeting of the Research Council of the Biological Research Institute

Correspondence between R E Glover and George Soper Cansdale regarding the supply of West African monkeys for research work in England

Correspondence between Brian Vesey Fitzgerald and Geoffrey Marr Vevers on feeding bats for a research project on malaria in bats in Palestine

Correspondence between James Fisher and Geoffrey Marr Vevers regarding research into raven, crows, rooks and jackdaws