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Draft notes by Julian Huxley on visits to the Zoological Gardens at New York (Bronx Park), Philadelphia, Washington DC, Paris (Vincennes), Hamburg, Berlin, Munich (Hellabrunn) and Frankfort, also the Aquarium at Chicago

Letter regarding an exchange of animals between the Zoological Society of London and Montevideo Zoo

A ledger containing listings of animals at Belle Vue Zoo, giving date of arrival, supplier, price, species, sex, condition, and disposal (sale/exchange/died/gift/loan). New animals added from 1960-1971, but animals that arrived earlier and were still living in the zoo are listed too, going back to 1938

Letter from Edward Greenaway to Nicholas Aylward Vigors regarding the opening of the gardens of the Zoological Society of London on Good Friday when other exhibitions in London were closed

Letter regarding the shipment of 29 boxes of small live British mammals and birds to the Philadelphia Zoological Gardens

Letter from R Gouldsmith to Nicholas Aylward Vigors regarding the elephant at the gardens of the Zoological Society of London

Letter from the Duke of Somerset to Sir Stamford Raffles apologising for not visiting the Zoological Society of London, and giving thanks for having been named Vice President of the Society

Letter from Charles Dickens to Philip Lutley Sclater sending thanks for the ticket for the gardens of the Zoological Society of London

Letter from J Deal regarding his visit to the Gardens of the Zoological Society of London in August. He did not see species of guinea fowl he had brought from upper Gambia so offers a pair to the Zoological Society of London

Letter sent by G P Clifford to Philip Lutley Sclater regarding birds sent by the Otago Acclimatisation Society to the Zoological Society of London