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Letter from John Colebrook to Philip Lutley Sclater regarding monkey enclosures and preventing lung disease

Letter from William Schwenck Gilbert to Peter Chalmers Mitchell regarding an offer of two monkeys to the Zoological Society of London

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

Letter from Henry Lee to Philip Lutley Sclater regarding suggestions from the manager of Land and Water about a monkey

Atheneum Club Pall Mall

Nov 30 187-
7.30pm

Your Royal Highness

My Page Boy has just brought your telegram. You are most kind the Hedgehogs will be most acceptable.
I am writing about them in a new edition of White's Selbourne. I expect they were discovered when hybernating any particulars will be acceptable.

Yours most obliged

Frank Buckland

I want to see how many spines a hedgehog has I shall make one into a pie and boils his skin and count the spines. So much obliged.
I shall see if the hedgehogs will agree with my Monkeys I have four now.
Please send them to 37 Albany St.

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 N Melton to David William Mitchell regarding a shipment of crown birds, a monkey and a scotchman bird for the Zoological Society of London

Minutes of the Nutrition Committee of the Zoological Society of London regarding demyelinisation, the diet of anthropods, Vitamin D deficiency in South American Monkeys and experimental groups of Raccoons

Report by G M Vevers on his visit to Carl Hagenbeck's Animal Park at Stellingen, with a drawing of Monkey Hill at Stellingen

Report by the Zoological Society of London on the Michael Sobell Pavilions for Apes and Monkeys