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Archival description
Alexander, Charles
SUP/5/1/1/20 · Item · 1945
Part of Superintendents

Letter regarding the purchase of birds for the Zoological Society of London

Brown, William
SEC/7/2/39 · Item · 1872
Part of ZSL Secretaries

Letter from William Brown to Philip Lutley Sclater regarding the price of a koala or native bear, and a request for reptiles from Queensland

Hamlyn, John D
SEC/9/1/10 · Item · 1904
Part of ZSL Secretaries

Letter from John D Hamlyn to Peter Chalmers Mitchell regarding a gorilla and a chimpanzee for sale

Hargreave, J
SEC/7/8/6 · Item · 1902
Part of ZSL Secretaries

Letter from J Hargreave to Philip Lutley Sclater regarding the offer for sale of a chimpanzee monkey from West Africa, including a list of tricks he could perform

Horlock, -
SEC/2/1/39 · Item · 1836
Part of ZSL Secretaries

Letter from Horlock to the Superintendent of the Zoological Society of London Garden asking for instructions as to transport by sea and enquiries as to the price of animals to be disposed of

L Cura & Sons
SUP/5/1/1/77 · Item · 1945
Part of Superintendents

Letter regarding an order of 4 Pythons, 6 Bengal Monitors and 50 Rhesus Monkeys by the Zoological Society of London

Ledger of animals
NZSL/BVZ/1 · Item · 1938-1971
Part of Non-ZSL Collections

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

Belle Vue Zoo
Martin, William
SEC/4/5 · Item · 1839
Part of ZSL Secretaries

Letter from William Martin, Secretary of the Bristol and Clifton Zoological Gardens, to John Barlow regarding a specimen they held of an Active Gibbon which they offered for sale to the Zoological Society of London