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Letter from S J Merriman of Brasenose College conveying an offer from an ornithologist he met in the summer in Shetlands to catch for the Zoological Society of London a number of specified seabirds breeding in the islands

Letters from W J Schalabear from Havanna regarding explanatory sketches to illustrate the paper showing the economy of the genus Urania, two species of lizards he thought to be Ptyodactylus but look like Spheriodactylus, and the death of a man in Havanna called Douglas who was sent to collect specimens for Dr Hooker but contracted fever (the British Consul had what specimens he had collected)

4 letters from unknown authors to David William Mitchell regarding membership of the Zoological Society of London, a large blood hound for the Society and the transportation of animals

Correspondence between Alan Best and Geoffrey Marr Vevers requesting the collection of animals from the West Coast

Correspondence between Lieutenant Binfield and Geoffrey Marr Vevers regarding a Royal Bengal Tiger offered to the Zoological Society of London

Correspondence between C Bretell and Geoffrey Marr Vevers regarding the offer to bring live animals from Kenya to the Zoological Society of London

Correspondence between the British Overseas Airways Corporation and Geoffrey Marr Vevers regarding the shipment of animals to the Zoological Society of London

Correspondence between George Soper Cansdale and Geoffrey Marr Vevers regarding photographs of Cansdale's Squirrels and a Bush Baby, and the import of a collection of reptiles and insects from the Gold Coast

Correspondence between S R Cleland-Scott and Geoffrey Marr Vevers regarding the purchase and shipping of a lion from Kenya to the Zoological Society of London called The Last Straw, and a male Leopard called Alexander

Correspondence between the Colonial Office and Geoffrey Marr Vevers regarding a priority passage for C S Webb to travel to Mombasa