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Letter from the Curator of The Auckland Zoological Park to George Soper Cansdale regarding an offer of a trio of Keas to the Zoological Society of London

Correspondence between Auckland Zoo and George Soper Cansdale regarding a shipment of Keas to the Zoological Society of London. Also, a paper by the City of Auckland on Conditions of Appointment of Curator, Auckland Zoological Park

Letter from the Deputy High Commissioner of Australia to Geoffrey Marr Vevers regarding a couple who would be capable of looking after the breeding of various kinds of rare birds on a property recently presented to the Zoological Board of Victoria

Instructions on the control of expenditure, notes on reserves and procedures for placing orders, paying bills and entering into agreements

Papers regarding the authority of the council of the Zoological Society of London, including the legal opinion on the right of Council to grant pensions to staff and office; information regarding the illegality of Council's submitting its acts performed by virtue of the powers so conferred on them for confirmation or reversal by a General Meeting of the Fellows; Council's authority to appoint staff without reference to the Fellows; original authority for paying the Secretary; legal opinion regarding Dr Sclater's pension; authority to the Society to dispose of property and a codicil to Sir Peter Chalmers Mitchell's will

Autograph volume

Autograph volume

2 volumes of autographs collected by Hugh S Gladstone (1877-1949), and presented to the society by him. Gladstone was a Scottish Ornithologist and landowner. Volume 2 contains a list of 161 autographs (signatures) of naturalists, but Volume 1 does not contain a list. 

Correspondence between the Avicultural Society and George Soper Cansdale regarding an invitation for Cansdale and his wife to attended the nineteenth Meeting and Dinner of the British Aviculturists' Club, and ten Blue Masked Lovebirds that had arrived from the San Diego Zoo