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List of specimens sent to British Museum. Presumably compiled by JE Gray and GR Gray before their published version in 1846. Lists reveal 803 mammals, 4425 birds, 663 bird skins, 21 human skulls with origins

Letters from Thomas de Grey to Philip Lutley Sclater regarding his expedition down the Rocky Mountains into New Mexico, skeletons of mammals for the Cambridge museum, and a paper on West Indian Microlepidoptera for the Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London

Correspondence regarding a request for birds and mammals from Africa for the Zoological Society of London

Letters from Professor Dr J J Hess of Zurich to Patrick Alfred Buxton, regarding the correct forms of the Arabic names of reptiles and mammals, and general notes on transliteration and the use of diacritical points

Correspondence between James & Hodder and Geoffrey Marr Vevers regarding the collection of mammals and birds from the Philadelphia Zoo which arrived on the S.S.Sofie Bakke for the Zoological Society of London

Letters from Sir Harry Hamilton Johnston to Philip Lutley Sclater regarding posts open at the Foreign Office for the consular department, the Kilimanjaro Expedition, papers on birds, mammals and insects from Kilimanjaro, medals to be awarded for services to zoology, animals and specimens sent by Mr Johnston to the Zoological Society of London, drawings of animals, a visit to the gardens of the Zoological Society of London by the Katikiro of Uganda and his party, and his election as a member of the Council and attendance at meetings, and the Zoological Club

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

Papers relating to the opening of the Charles Clore Pavilion for Mammals, including the Secretary's speech, timetables, invitations, memos, and correspondence with Buckingham Palace and Kensington Palace

Correspondence with Geoffrey Marr Vevers regarding queries about mammals such as an offer of a Lioness for mating, the measurements of Camels, Toto the Lesser Kudu, Mink breeders, Monkeys from East Africa, Quaggas, the gestation period of a Giraffe, Horned Hares, and domesticating the Paca and Capybara

Letters from Edmund Ruppell, a German citizen from Frankfort, giving appreciation for receipt of his diploma as a foreign member of the Zoological Society of London, Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, comments on his discoveries such as a new variety of Gasteropod, a list of mammals and birds 'our museum wishes to get from England' receipt of the 1934 Proceedings, the first volume of museum catalogue, and his wish to complete the exchange