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Paper relating to Julian Sorell Huxley's appointment as Secretary of the Zoological Society of London, including letters from Peter Chalmers Mitchell, questions to be put to candidates by the President at a meeting of the Council and a draft report of the Secretaryship Committee

Peter Chalmers Mitchell was a Scottish zoologist, and ZSL Secretary from 1903-1935. He was responsible for founding Whipsnade Zoo.

Letter from F Baddeley to Peter Chalmers Mitchell regarding the feeding of goats to serpents in the Gardens of the Zoological Society of London

Letter from Arthur John Bigge, 1st Baron Stamfordham and Private Secretary to George V, to Peter Chalmers Mitchell regarding specimens of South Australian Doves and a Green Parrot for the Zoological Society of London

Letter from John Samuel Budget to Peter Chalmers Mitchell requesting a grant from the Zoological Society of London towards the expenses of his expedition to Nigeria

Letters from Bennet Burleigh to Peter Chalmers Mitchell regarding two young ostriches and a squirrel from Somaliland to be gifted to the Zoological Society of London

Letter from Sir Francis Cowley Burnand to Peter Chalmers Mitchell regarding his Sunday admission to the Gardens of the Zoological Society of London

Letter from Alfred Carpenter to Peter Chalmers Mitchell regarding the feeding of snakes in the Gardens of the Zoological Society of London

Letter from Wolfram Onslow Ford to Peter Chalmers Mitchell regarding tickets for sketching in the Gardens of the Zoological Society of London

Letter from William Schwenck Gilbert to Peter Chalmers Mitchell regarding an offer of two monkeys to the Zoological Society of London