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Letters from G F Westerman, Director of the Zoological Gardens of the Society Natura Artis Magistra in Amsterdam, to Philip Lutley Sclater regarding a payment from the Zoological Society of London and the exchange of animals

Correspondence between Philip Lutley Sclater and West Middlesex Water Works regarding the charge for water supply at the Gardens of the Zoological Society of London

Papers regarding the authority of the council of the Zoological Society of London, including the legal opinion on the right of Council to grant pensions to staff and office; information regarding the illegality of Council's submitting its acts performed by virtue of the powers so conferred on them for confirmation or reversal by a General Meeting of the Fellows; Council's authority to appoint staff without reference to the Fellows; original authority for paying the Secretary; legal opinion regarding Dr Sclater's pension; authority to the Society to dispose of property and a codicil to Sir Peter Chalmers Mitchell's will

Letters from James Anderson regarding a proposed Zoological Garden in Edinburgh, with a reply from Philip Lutley Sclater

Letters from Sir Granville Ransome Bantock thanking Philip Lutley Sclater for free admission to the Zoological Gardens

Letters from Baring Brothers and Co. to Philip Lutley Sclater regarding the arrival of the ship Renshaw at St Katharine's Docks with the animals shipped by Mr Du Chaillu

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

Letters from Gilbert Bayes to Philip Lutley Sclater regarding renewals of his ticket to the Gardens of the Zoological Society of London