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Letter from the New York Zoological Society regarding the acquisition of an Indian Rhinoceros

Correspondence between Clarence Bartlett, Philip Lutley Sclater and Balmoral Castle regarding the skin and skeleton of a giraffe and the donation of the skin to the Natural History Museum. Also telegrams from Balmoral Castle sending the Queen's condolences on the death of the giraffe and her request that it should be buried

Letter from Lewis Adolphus Bernays to Philip Lutley Sclater regarding the Acclimatisation Society of Queensland

Letters from Arthur E Brown of the Zoological Society of Philadelphia, to Philip Lutley Sclater regarding the birth of an African elephant

Letters from Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg, Secretary of Carolinische Akademie de Naturforsche, acknowledging receipt of the Proceedings of the Zoological Society for 1830-31

Correspondence between Jean Delacour and Geoffrey Marr Vevers regarding the acquisition and transport of Pere David's Deer from the Duke of Bedford for New York Zoological Society, and also the the transport of snakes

Correspondence between the British Museum (Natural History) and Geoffrey Marr Vevers regarding a parcel containing fleas sent by Dr J Joff, USSR, reindeer breeding in northern Sweden, a case of Snowy Owls, the skin of a Ringed Penguin, the skull belonging to the White Tayra, a Spider Monkey brought by Webb from British Guiana, and a specimen of the barbel, Barbus barbus

Correspondence between the Royal Society of Ireland and George Soper Cansdale regarding an exchange of Brown Pelicans and Canadian Black Bear cubs for Giraffes or a Camel

Correspondence between the Royal Zoological Society of Ireland and George Soper Cansdale regarding the exchange of animals between the Royal Zoological Society of Ireland and the Zoological Society of London

Correspondence between the Zoological Society of Glasgow and The West of Scotland and George Soper Cansdale regarding the exchange of animals between the Zoological Society of Glasgow and the West of Scotland, and the Zoological Society of London