Letters from John Hanning Speke to Philip Lutley Sclater regarding animals found in Tibet
Letters from the United Planters Association of Southern India to Philip Lutley Sclater regarding attempts to introduce appropriate varieties of Ladybirds from Australia for the extermination of certain scale pests
Zoological Society of London
11 Hanover Square
London W
23 July 1874
Dear Sir
I think your view of the Bye-Laws is correct, and that your annual contribution will be £2.
As soon as I get the order of Council for your admission I will write you again.
Yours truly
P.L. Sclater
Secretary
B.H. Hodgson Esq.
Letters from Grindlay and Co to Philip Lutley Sclater regarding the transport of animals and birds from Calcutta
Zoological Society of London
11 Hanover Square
London W
13th July 1874
Dear Sir
I have received your letter and enclosed list of the drawings of Mammals which you propose to present to the Society's Library. I need hardly say that we shall receive the valuable collection with great pleasure.
Yours truly
P.L. Sclater
Zoological Society of London
11 Hanover Square
London W
12th Aug[us]t 1874
Sir
I am directed by the Council of this Society to acquaint you with the following resolution which was passed at their meeting held this day. "That B.H. Hodgson Esq. M.Z.S. be admitted a Fellow of the Society without a ballot in accordance with the Bye-Laws, and that his admission fee and [composition?] fee be remitted in acknowledgement of service rendered to Zoological Science, and to the Society"
I am Sir
Your Ob[e]d[ien]t Servant
P.L. Sclater
Secretary
B.H. Hodgson Esq.
Zoological Society of London
11, Hanover Square
London W
12 Aug[us]t 1874
Dear Sir
The enclosed letters will I think, explain themselves and we shall now put your name in the list of Fellows of which I send a copy by this same post with a "double asterisk" before it
Yours truly
P.L. Sclater
B.H. Hodgson Esq.
Letters from Frederic Brine to Philip Lutley Sclater regarding the living conditions of a gorilla, a sacred white elephant which was said to have been in Siam but which he refuted, and the height and weight of Jumbo and Jenny
Letter from I G Laverick to Philip Lutley Sclater regarding elephants in China
Letters from Frederick Courteney Selous to Philip Lutley Sclater regarding his papers, notes on his egg collecting trip to Asia Minor, admission to the Gardens of the Zoological Society of London, a donation towards the International Congress of Zoology, notes on the red Rhebuck, meetings the Zoological Society of London, the horns of a white rhinoceros, his election as a corresponding member of the Society and accounts of his travels