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Letters from the Zoological Society of London to the Ministry of Food regarding requirements of fish for the feeding of the sea-lions and fish-eating birds

Correspondence between A Miller and George Soper Cansdale regarding a shipment of a Secretary Bird, a Martial Eagle and a Buzzard or Hawk Eagle to the Zoological Society of London from the British Cotton Growing Association in Nigeria

Correspondence between A Miller and Geoffrey Marr Vevers regarding the donation of animals, birds and snakes to the Zoological Society of London

Notebook containing descriptions of birds numbered by reference to numbered drawings. No.1 Vol.1 (1-169); No.3 Vol.3 (340-488); No.6 Vol.6 (755-855)

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

Correspondence between F Shaw Mayer and Geoffrey Marr Vevers regarding collecting animals in New Guinea for the Zoological Society of London, such as Birds of Paradise, Parrots, Tree Kangaroos and Echidnas

Letters from Clements Robert Markham, Secretary of the Royal Geographical Society, to Philip Lutley Sclater regarding permission for his cousin to take photographs in the gardens of the Zoological Society of London, a request to review Eastern Persia for the Geographical Magazine, Sclater's membership of the Geographical Society, a representation to the government with a view to the exploration of the North Pole region, the Spitsbergen bird, and an order for his wife and himself to see their dogs at the gardens

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 Richard M Lockley of The Pembrokeshire Bird Protection Society and Julian Sorell Huxley requesting permission to nominate Huxley as Vice-President

Catalogue of Nepalese Birds presented to As[iatic] Society and duly named and Classified by the Donor, Mr Hodgson (with Blyth's remarks added), 9 April 1842; Catalogue of Nepalese Birds presented to As[iatic] Society and duly named and Classified by the Donor, Mr Hodgson, not dated; List of Mammal skins and bones brought home in 1844 & presented to Br[itish] Mus[eum]; List of Drawings (new series) received from the Zoological Society, March 1845; List of New & Undescribed Species of Birds from Nepal presented to the Honourable East India Company by B.H. Hodgson, Esq., 23 Sept 1853; List of Mr Hodgson's Mammal drawings numbered by sheets according to the Count of February 1870; List of Mr Hodgson's collection of drawings of Mammalia numbered by sheets according to the Count of July 1874 (2 copies); List of drawings of Mammals given and sent to Zool Soc, 13 July 1874; Copy of letter to PL Sclater about Hodgson's annotated drawings which he will send to ZSL, 13 July 1874; Various receipts