Correspondence with Rear-Admiral Christopher Bonham-Carter animals to be collected from India, Pakistan, Nepal and Iran, a request for otters and admission prices for students
Correspondence with Peter Humphries of the Embassy of the Republic of Indonesia, regarding immobilising wild animals
Files relating to a trip Thompson took to Calcutta to bring back animals. Includes finances, bills and a brief diary.
Bound volume contains payments by the Zoological Society of London to James Thompson for disbursement of cash in connection with his mission to India, with a bundle of receipts
Correspondence with Professor K Lorenz regarding a grey lag, a jackdaw and a mallard to be taken to Lime Grove, a paper on the ethology of the European Bullfinch by Dr Jurgen Nicolai, and a request for bullfinches from Calcutta
Proposals; Project reports; "Philippines Biodiversity Conservation Programme - an introduction'
Sans titreCorrespondence between Boon Vanit Company Ltd and George Soper Cansdale regarding the importation of animals from Siam for the Zoological Society of London
Correspondence between F G Rollason and George Soper Cansdale regarding a Himalayan Bear called Vicky which was presented to the Zoological Society of London in the Spring of 1946 by the 89 Squadron RAF which had been stationed in Singapore
Letters from J Neeves regarding an Anas Cygna or Chin Chow Goose, a letter from Mr Acali referring to the new Purple Headed Pheasant, a little tortoise that belonged to his daughter which he asked the Zoological Society of London to take charge of in his absence, his son who had been in China to procure a Medallion Pheasant and some bird skins sent by his son for the Zoological Society of London
Letter from H C James to David William Mitchell regarding his dispatch to Calcutta from Darjeeling, and birds that are destined for the Zoological Society of London