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Letter from W Masters to Joseph Sabine at Bruton Street regarding a present received by Canterbury Museum from S R Lushington, recently returned from India, comprising of 2 Hunt Leopards, 1 Royal Tiger and 2 Black Monkeys. They are currently in the West Indies Docks. The Museum has no facilities for handling them and asks to send for the animals to Regent's Park

Letter from Leopold Charles Maurice Stennett to Philip Lutley Sclater offering to get anything he wished during his trip to South Africa, and thanking him for a recent zoo ticket

Letter from Willem Vrolik to Philip Lutley Sclater offering a live specimen of leopard to the Zoological Society of London

Letter regarding a shipment of the leopard mascot of the 146 squadron

Letter from A Elphinston to Philip Lutley Sclater regarding the capture of three young leopards

Letter from F N Warren to Philip Lutley Sclater regarding a leopard

Letter from Philip Hermogenes Calderon to Philip Lutley Sclater requesting a card permitting his son, William Francis Calderon, to sketch lions and leopards at the Zoological Society of London

From Major McDonald

The Arabians were clad in long cloaks girt about the waist: on the right arm were hung long bows, which bent both ways. The Ethiopians clad in the skins of leopards and lions carried bows formed from the branches of the palm trees and not less than four cubits in length: with these they used short reed arrows pointed with sharpened stones instead of iron the stone used for this purpose is the same that is employed in engraving seals. They have besides pikes, armed with stags horns, the ends of which are sharpened like the head of a dart and also knotted clubs. When they go to battle, they daub one half of the body with gypsum (white) and the other half with red ochre. These Arabians and the Ethiopians inhabiting the country about Egypt were under the command of Arsames Son of Darius and or Artystone daughter of Cyrus and whom all his wives Darius loved most he had an image of her formed of solid gold

Herodotus Book 7 Section 3

It is quite evident that those designated Ethiopians by Herodotus were Arabians as Ethiopia in his time was considered to be Arabia