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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)

Letters from Thomas Bell regarding his apologies that he will be unable to meet Edward Turner Bennett at the Gardens of the Zoological Society of London, proposed changes to the Gardens of the Society, a recommendation for William Cranley to work in the museum and an invitation to dinner

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

Letters from Phineas Taylor Barnum to Philip Lutley Sclater regarding the purchase and transfer of Alice the elephant. Also a letter regarding the purchase of specimens for Barnum's Zoological Museum

Correspondence between the Geological Survey & Museum and Geoffrey Marr Vevers regarding wells in the Zoological Society of London Gardens

Papers regarding the authority of the council of the Zoological Society of London, including the legal opinion on the right of Council to grant pensions to staff and office; information regarding the illegality of Council's submitting its acts performed by virtue of the powers so conferred on them for confirmation or reversal by a General Meeting of the Fellows; Council's authority to appoint staff without reference to the Fellows; original authority for paying the Secretary; legal opinion regarding Dr Sclater's pension; authority to the Society to dispose of property and a codicil to Sir Peter Chalmers Mitchell's will

Returns of specimens in the Museum of the Zoological Society of London, including dried specimens of fish and reptiles, mounted mammalia, mounted birds, skulls, skeletons and small collections

Circulars, printed papers and correspondence of Dr Bidder, mainly concerning the Meetings of British Zoologists, the forming of the Association of British Zoologists, and urging the split of the British Museum and the Natural History Museum. Most are from 1920's and are unordered. Includes letters from Prof. Balfour-Browne, P Chalmers Mitchell and E Ray Lankester, etc

Report of a meeting between the Trustees of the British Museum and the representatives of the Museum Conference of Naturalists, with correspondence, a memorandum on the problem of combining the administrative and technical or scientific direction of National Museums with special reference to the British Museum (Natural History) and papers from meetings

Letter to Dr A Tindell Hopwood of the British Museum (Natural History) inviting him to act as Honorary Editor for a further volume of Nomenclator Zoologicus