Correspondence between Sir William Gowers and Geoffrey Marr Vevers regarding A J Ferrier who wrote the book 'Elephants in Burma', and a question on the weight of an elephant before death
Belgrave Mansions S[outh?]
My dear Hodgson
I had a talk with G. Marshall today about your portfolios from wh[ich] he seems to have already abstracted such memoranda as [?] on the [Capitonida?] wh[ich] is the [work?] he has in hand. The rest of the contents of y[ou]r collection he wishes to catalogue for Hume's benefit and such a catalogue is a [?] for the [?] of naturalists generally. He hopes to find time for clarifying and cataloguing all y[ou]r drawings before he leaves England and in the interval will get Hume's reply to the letter wh[ich] he has written [explaining?] all that he has seen at Alderley. We both think that [regard?] being had to his own available space you had better send me portfolio at a time. He will write to you himself on this subject. I don't think from the tenor of our conversation that Hume's [?] book presents itself to him in a more definite shape than it does to me. But there appear to be some printed sheets of the work on their way to Engl[and] and these will show us something of the plan and if you approve of this and Hume expresses a wish to profit by your notes for the rest of his book you can hereafter supply him with the materials he requires. This methinks w[oul]d be preferable to sending out all yr portfolios indiscriminately. Marshall is evidently incorrect and may be relied on for [?] that he undertakes. He expects to publish his first [no?] of the Barbets on the 1st prox[imity]. I shall not be able to visit you for another fortnight or 3 weeks - My daughter Mrs [Strepwell?] will have I find to leave London to seek a milder climate in the I. of Wight. I have been looking at the so called Maracus Pelops in the Zoo, the animal is quite different from that I believe you to have described. I s[houl]d like to see from figures and notes of all the monkees your collection may contain. You might put these with the first portfolio wh[ich] you send up to us.
With Kind Regards to
Mrs. H.
Ever Y[our]s S[incerel]y
A. Grote
33 Upper Berkeley Street
Portman Square
8 Feb[ruaru]y 1870
My dear Mr. Hodgson
I had a talk with Mr. Grote yesterday about y[ou]r portfolios. What I want to do myself is to send the whole of them as they are to Mr. Hume, as agreed in my brother's care, he sails next months and there they could be sorted, translated and arranged with the greatest convenience and incorporated at once with Humes work; Mr. Grote does not believe in Hume and I was unable to convince him that the book would certainly be published, and in that case he proposed and I assented to, keeping them in abeyance for a short time and having them up one by one to sort and catalogue; but on returning home and again reading over Humes letters (parts of which I enclose) I thought three was sufficient guarantee for the publishing of the work, and that the sending of your portfolios out direct would be a saving of both tie and labour. I have written to Mr. Grote to this effect. I have been hard at work lately and so these has been a little delay in answering you. I feel a little delicacy in proposing the wholesale sending out of your treasures to India but I am convinced of their safety and that it is the greatest opportunity of utilizing them likely to occur, and you have been so kind about them already of course. Everything would appear in your name.
With my Kindest regards to yourself and Mrs. Hodgson
Y[our]s very truly
G.F.L. Marshall
To Brian Houghton Hodgson
118 Cambridge Street
Warwick Square
S.W
12th April 1870
My dear Mr. Hodgson
The pamphlet that Hume published has arrived and I send you a copy of it by book-post this day. It contains a great deal of useful information and it is a thorough field ornithologist's handbook, but it requires revision and systematizing and that I hope it will get when published in its complete form. We have had no answers as yet to our letters to him and are anxiously awaiting them. If we are able to induce him to come home for a year so as to combine his immense store of notes from all sources with that already on record in libraries and revise the synonymy it may be made into a most complete work. Mr Grote tells me that you wish to subscribe to our monograph and also to Hume's book. It is very good of you indeed to back us up after you had for so long relinquishes the pursuit and got out of the habit of interesting yourself in birds. I was going through the Journal of Asiatic Society the other day and I was quite overwhelmed with the immense number of your contributions to it on every subject. Are you coming to town this season, I hope so. I should much like my eldest sister to meet you she should thoroughly appreciate so staunch a liberal and especially one from India and she is a great friend of your friends the Colvilles.
Please give my kindest regards to Mrs. Hodgson and believe me
Y[ou]rs very truly
G.F.L. Marshall
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.
Journal of voyages to the W Indies, S America, E Indies and China, Cape of Good Hope and St Helena, from 1823 to 1831, in the Barque Charles and H C Ship Berwickshire
Sans titreVoyage to and from China, in H C Ship Berwickshire, in 1832 and 1833
Sans titreZoological Society of London
11, Hanover Square
London W
June 29 1858
Dear Sir
The enclosed letter was written some days ago, and was accidentally put away with yours of the 10th instead of being posted.
If you approve of what we propose to do I will remove the Boxes from the Clearing Agent's hands as soon as I receive your authority to do so. We have two find lambs of Ovis Vignei born from the sheep sent home by Gen[eral] Heaisey
I intend to [?] a drawing of them in the "Zoological Sketches" of which I enclose a Prospectus. I shall be delighted to add your name to my list. I shall be delighted to have it.
I am dear Sir
Yours very faithfully
D.W. Mitchell
Paper regarding the exhibition of an albino elephant at London Zoo, alongside another elephant, from the National Karen Association of Burma
Letters from Alexander Shaw to David William Mitchell regarding tigers from Bombay sent to the Zoological Society of London