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Letters from Charles Telfaire to Nicholas Aylward Vigors regarding his research on the Dodo, a tortoise from the Seychelles, tortoises of the Amirante Islands and Mombasa, and a Chamaeleon from the north of Madagascar to be presented to the Zoological Society of London

Letters from John Samuel Budgett to Philip Lutley Sclater regarding his research on okapis and expeditions to study polypterus

Letters from George John Romanes to Philip Lutley Sclater regarding research into whether mutilations are ever inherited and Weismann's theory of heredity

Correspondence between the Yellow Fever Research Institute in Entebbe, Uganda and Geoffrey Marr Vevers regarding a shipment of Monkeys and Red River Hog for the Zoological Society of London

Correspondence between Cartwright Farmiloe and Geoffrey Marr Vevers regarding a research apiary

Correspondence between Brian Vesey Fitzgerald and Geoffrey Marr Vevers on feeding bats for a research project on malaria in bats in Palestine

Correspondence between Philip Manson-Bahr and Geoffrey Marr Vevers regarding research into zoology in relation to tropical medicine, a meeting of the Association of Bird Watchers and Wardens at the Zoological Society of London, and paintings of Birds of Paradise

Correspondence between R E Glover and George Soper Cansdale regarding the supply of West African monkeys for research work in England

Minutes of the Nuffield Institute of Comparative Medicine Planning Group. A grant had been made by the Trustees of the Nuffield Foundation for the provision of such an Institute at Regent's Park on a side adjoining the Animal Hospital and Pathology Laboratories of the Zoological Society of London, and for the establishment of two senior research fellowships. The object was to make full use of the valuable material derived from the various species of mammals, reptiles, birds, and other animals in the Society's Collections for purposes of comparative medical research

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