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Letter from J W Hope with lists of scientific names of insects with some descriptions

Letter from J S Henslow to Edward Turner Bennett at the Linnean Society regarding risks of losing contact due to attacks of envy, and that we all benefit from cooperation. He offers additional subscription if it will help

Letter from S N A Drummond Hay regarding the shipping of animals by HM sloop 'Procuris', preliminary notice of proposed shipment of animals via Gibraltar, a few specimens that have been sent via a friend and agent in Gibraltar, thanks for the volume of Desmarish and confirmation that they will send to the Zoological Society of London every rare animal within their reach

Letter from Hawthorne saying he will call at the Zoological Society of London and make arrangements about the Gazellus lysery

Letter from William Tyler Hamilton saying the elephant had arrived and appeared least worse for it. It was a valuable addition to the collection. They are likely to lost the last fine male as it was showing signs of enlargement of the epiglottis which proved fatal in the female

Letter from Prof M Guerin referring to the genus Phyllosama with the first number of Zoological Bulletin. He asks for Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London with a view to reviewing them in his Bulletin

Letter from Captain J G Green to offer a specimen of a barn door hen which had developed cock plumage to the Zoological Society of London

Letter from S Goodall to accept an invitation to a dinner for Baron Cuvier

Letter from P J Fuss, Secretary of the Perpetuelle de l'Academie Imperiale des Sciences, giving thanks for Volume I of the Zoological Society of London Transactions

Letter from John Franklin to apologise for his absence from the dinner of Baron Cuvier