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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 Alphonse Milne-Edwards, Director of the Menagerie au Museum d'histoire naturelle, to Philip Lutley Sclater

Letter from Emmett Reid Dunn of the Department of Zoology, Smith College, Massachusetts, regarding her resignation from the British Museum

Letter from Gavin de Beer of the British Museum (Natural History) regarding Desmond Morris and Congo

Correspondence with the Coryndon Museum regarding the sale of an Ostrich to the Zoological Society of London, and the offer of a Cricetomys and a Hinged Tortoise

Correspondence between Sir Arthur Landsborough Thomson and L Harrison Matthews regarding Council Meetings, a proposed educational exhibit, a museum of the Zoological Society of London, the Scientific Fellowship, and the Department of Zoology in Cambridge

Letters from Sir George Clerk to David William Mitchell regarding the Chancellor of the Exchequer and the purchase of a museum collection of the Zoological Society of London

Letters from Decimus Burton to Edward Turner Bennett regarding his brother's giraffe, the location of the parrot cage, drawings of the museum, the risk of fires, and the meeting of the creditors of the Colosseum

Correspondence between the British Museum (Natural History) and George Soper Cansdale regarding specimens donated by the Zoological Society of London to the British Museum (Natural History)

Correspondence between the British Museum (Natural History) and Sheffield Airey Neave regarding delegates to the Conference on Nature Preservation in Post-War Reconstruction, and a meeting of the Council