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Letters from John Hanning Speke to Philip Lutley Sclater regarding animals found in Tibet

Correspondence between the Zoological Garden in Alipore and the Zoological Society of London regarding a collection for the Society being shipped from Colombo to Calcutta by Mr Osman Hill

Correspondence with Sidney Bernstein regarding permission to send a Granada team to film animals in China

Correspondence between Mr Fish, Librarian of the Zoological Society of London, and the Duke of Edinburgh's Royal Regiment and the India Office Library and Records regarding research into Henry Jones

Lists of drawings with numbers and names of species, including "Illustrations of Nepalese zoology"; lists of specimens sent home

Prospectus and correspondence with Gray, Waterhouse, Rees and Ogilby

A collection of papers mainly relating to the herpetology of Hong Kong, including a typewritten papers entitled 'Notes on the Geckos of Hong Kong', a series of black and white photographs (plus negatives) showing a Hong Kong landscape with accompanying notes detailing the collection of herpetological specimens, a list of reptile and amphibian specimens in Romer's collection, two colour photographs and accompanying sketch of a turtle (Trionyx steindachneri), and Romer's curriculum vitae

Colour negatives of the Japan Snake Institute and Ueno Zoo, Tokyo

An album of black and white and colour photographs, including images of herpetofauna (snakes, frogs and crocodiles) in captivity and in the wild, as well as various zoo reptile enclosures, including Berlin, Frankfurt, Stuttgart, Singapore and Chester

Colour negatives of J D Romer with a marmoset and with a tamarin in a zoo setting, and of Mrs Ray Romer with an indigo snake, dated 1975; a puma at Hong Kong Zoological and Botanical Gardens, dated 28 August 1976; a puma and of raccoons at Hong Kong Zoological and Botanical Gardens, dated 4 September 1976; a puma and with a python, plus images of a python in a terrarium and some personal pictures, dated April 1976; and at a desk and of tree frog terraria c1973