Letter from Wilfred Mark Webb to Philip Lutley Sclater regarding the feeding of serpents in the Gardens of the Zoological Society of London
Letter from Robert Blake White to Philip Lutley Sclater regarding his research into tapirs
Letter from Basil Wilberforce to Philip Lutley Sclater regarding sending a parrot to London Zoo for a few months
Zoological Society of London
11 Hanover Square
London W
13th July 1874
Dear Sir
I have received your letter and enclosed list of the drawings of Mammals which you propose to present to the Society's Library. I need hardly say that we shall receive the valuable collection with great pleasure.
Yours truly
P.L. Sclater
Zoological Society of London
11 Hanover Square
London W
12th Aug[us]t 1874
Sir
I am directed by the Council of this Society to acquaint you with the following resolution which was passed at their meeting held this day. "That B.H. Hodgson Esq. M.Z.S. be admitted a Fellow of the Society without a ballot in accordance with the Bye-Laws, and that his admission fee and [composition?] fee be remitted in acknowledgement of service rendered to Zoological Science, and to the Society"
I am Sir
Your Ob[e]d[ien]t Servant
P.L. Sclater
Secretary
B.H. Hodgson Esq.
Zoological Society of London
11, Hanover Square
London W
12 Aug[us]t 1874
Dear Sir
The enclosed letters will I think, explain themselves and we shall now put your name in the list of Fellows of which I send a copy by this same post with a "double asterisk" before it
Yours truly
P.L. Sclater
B.H. Hodgson Esq.
Motion by Fellows of the Zoological Society of London against the Council regarding the decision to sell Jumbo the Elephant to Mr Barnum
Letter from Henry Francis Ainslie to Philip Lutley Sclater about plans for the erection by the Zoological Society of a new 'cats house or house for lions, tigers, and other large Felidae.'
A letter from a Fellow of the Zoological Society to Philip Lutley Sclater regarding a lecture given by Professor Huxley
Letter from Edwin Lester Arnold to Philip Lutley Sclater requesting an order for two persons for the Zoological Gardens