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Letters from P L Strachan of the Colonial Civil Service regarding his arrival in Sierra Leone, having been shipwrecked on 'the West India Islands', the deaths of the five African Woodcocks that he was bringing, the survival of a large scorpion (which may have accompanied the letter, a shipment of alligators and a mud turtle. Also comments that Bennett had not mentioned Mr Actin Governor ole and his brother having been admitted as Fellows

Correspondence between A M Stott and Geoffrey Marr Vevers regarding regarding an Desert Fox offered to the Zoological Society of London

Correspondence between Major J E Stevens and Geoffrey Marr Vevers regarding the offer of a panther cub (which died before transportation) and a Burmese Thamin to the Zoological Society of London

Correspondence between Erich Socurek and George Soper Cansdale regarding shipments of animals for the Zoological Society of London

Correspondence between Erich Sochurek and George Soper Cansdale regarding the shipment of collections of animals to the Zoological Society of London

Correspondence between A G Smith and Geoffrey Marr Vevers regarding servicemen returning to the United Kingdom and wishing to bring animals

Correspondence between A E Simmons and George Soper Cansdale regarding an offer by His Highness the Ameer of Bahawalpur to get animals for the Zoological Society of London, and his gift of a Macaw

Correspondence with K C Sen of The Variety of Birds Emporium, regarding shipments of animals to the Zoological Society of London

Correspondence between Martin Scott and George Soper Cansdale regarding an offer to send animals from Australia to the Zoological Society of London

Correspondence between San Diego Zoo and Geoffrey Marr Vevers regarding shipments of animals from San Diego Zoo to the Zoological Society of London, including Rosy Boas, a California King Snake, Pacific Rattlesnakes, a Black Cobra, Adders, Slow Worms, Emus and a request from the Zoological Society of London for Sea Lions, also the transport of Hedgehogs and Wallabies from the Zoological Society of London to San Diego Zoo