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Letters from Abraham Dee Bartlett to Philip Lutley Sclater regarding the doors to the new elephant house, animal food consumption, the female rhinoceros, the mounted specimen of a young gorilla, authorisation to sell Alice the elephant to Mr Barnum, and the theft of an owl

Correspondence between Clarence Bartlett, Philip Lutley Sclater and Balmoral Castle regarding the skin and skeleton of a giraffe and the donation of the skin to the Natural History Museum. Also telegrams from Balmoral Castle sending the Queen's condolences on the death of the giraffe and her request that it should be buried

Lists specimens in the Museum, with an arrival date, whether stuffed or in spirit, country, how obtained, and occasionally who deposited them. Arrival dates are from 1827-1840. Split into three groups of animals. Some specimens are from Sir Stamford Raffles' Sumatran collection. 

A series of mounted Siphonaptera specimens, in a wooden box

An album of black and white and colour photographs of various python specimens

Letters from Carl Jacob Sundevall, Director of the Royal Museum Stockholm, to Philip Lutley Sclater regarding specimens found in the Museum such as Galapagos birds

Letters from Edward Pierson Ramsay, Curator of the Australian Museum, to Philip Lutley Sclater regarding the transportation of a ceratodus to the Zoological Society of London

Correspondence between United States Lines and Geoffrey Marr Vevers regarding the transport of animals and museum specimens to Philadelphia on the Russell R. Jones

Includes: Report on the value of the Reserved Collection, 1851; Dr Crisp. Museum Stores; List of Animals Presented to the Norwich Collection; Catalogue of specimens of cruise, 1849; etc. Also includes printed extracts from the Annual Reports regarding the Museum, and a printed petition to the Chancellor of the Exchequer to buy the collection. The Dr Crisp item is a list of articles purchased by him from the Museum, including the skin of a giraffe. 

Catalogue of Nepalese Birds presented to As[iatic] Society and duly named and Classified by the Donor, Mr Hodgson (with Blyth's remarks added), 9 April 1842; Catalogue of Nepalese Birds presented to As[iatic] Society and duly named and Classified by the Donor, Mr Hodgson, not dated; List of Mammal skins and bones brought home in 1844 & presented to Br[itish] Mus[eum]; List of Drawings (new series) received from the Zoological Society, March 1845; List of New & Undescribed Species of Birds from Nepal presented to the Honourable East India Company by B.H. Hodgson, Esq., 23 Sept 1853; List of Mr Hodgson's Mammal drawings numbered by sheets according to the Count of February 1870; List of Mr Hodgson's collection of drawings of Mammalia numbered by sheets according to the Count of July 1874 (2 copies); List of drawings of Mammals given and sent to Zool Soc, 13 July 1874; Copy of letter to PL Sclater about Hodgson's annotated drawings which he will send to ZSL, 13 July 1874; Various receipts