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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

Copies of letters regarding the drainage system of the gardens of the Zoological Society into Regent's Canal, with accompanying map

Letter from John Alger to Philip Lutley Sclater ahead of his visit to Australia

Letters from Sir Lawrence Alma Tadema regarding an unmounted lion's skin and a letter in support of an artist being allowed to study in the Zoological Gardens

Letter from Leopold Charles Maurice Stennett to Philip Lutley Sclater offering to get anything he wished during his trip to South Africa, and thanking him for a recent zoo ticket

Letter from Adolphe Edouard Arppe to Philip Lutley Sclater regarding the Societe de Sciences au Finlande

Letter from Arthur F Astley to Philip Lutley Sclater regarding the subject of reptile feeding at the Zoo

Letter from William Baird to Philip Lutley Sclater regarding a paper containing the description of the new aplysia