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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

Letters from Arnold Jerome Matthews to Philip Lutley Sclater regarding an expedition to the Gabon for the purpose of procuring some young living specimens of the gorilla, then available to purchase by the Zoological Society of London

Correspondence between J Carberry and Geoffrey Marr Vevers regarding Garbo the Bush Pig and other animals sent from Kenya to the Zoological Society of London

Correspondence between the Colonial Office in London and Geoffrey Marr Vevers regarding air passage for collectors travelling to Africa on behalf of the Zoological Society of London

Correspondence between the Ministry of Civil Aviation and Geoffrey Marr Vevers regarding the importation by air of consignments of reptiles and insects from East Africa

Notices to shippers for the South and East African, Mauritius, Lobito and Port Sudan Outward Freight Conferences

Correspondence between C B Saunders and Geoffrey Marr Vevers regarding a request to be an assistant to Cecil Stanley Webb during his expedition to Kenya

Correspondence between United States Lines and Geoffrey Marr Vevers regarding the transport of animals and museum specimens to Philadelphia on the Russell R. Jones

Letter to Dr L G Goodwin of the Nuffield Institute of Comparative Medicine, regarding applications for the Scientific Fellowship, an application before the MRC, and his report on his visit to the Serengeti

Correspondence between B Bevis and George Soper Cansdale regarding the offer of a White Nosed Monkey from West Africa to the Zoological Society of London