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Letter from Sir George Cornewall Lewis to David William Mitchell regarding the Treasury not being prepared to purchase the collection of the Museum of the Zoological Society of London

Letters from Sir Richard Owen to David William Mitchell regarding the cost of keeping elephants, his attendance at meetings of the Council of the Zoological Society of London, and his consent to act as Vice President

Letters from Sir Charles Beaumont Phipps to David William Mitchell regarding Prince Albert

Letter from Sautet and Robinet to David William Mitchell regarding the destruction of insects in the Gardens of the Zoological Society of London

Letter from Charles Mull to ask if the Zoological Society of London would be willing to take two specimens of grizzly bear

Letters from Richard Owen regarding remarks on Bennett's edition of White's Natural History of Selborne, proofs of Bennett's paper with appreciation of his opinion on the value of Ousimile on Macr. Porryi, additions and alterations to notes on Hyrax, his omitted note of the salivary bags of the Armadillo from the written report of its dissection, MS of Clavagella, plans of the Monkey House and whether it is heated by hot air or steam, arrangements at the Garden to facilitate repetition and extension of experiments by Mr Hunter in 1725/6/7 to determine the relations subsisting between Wolf, Jackall and Dog, examination of 'your little feli-viverrine quadruped, bones of Touraco and drawings of Terebratala for the Zoological Society of London, East India Goats for sale by Mr Evans Riadone, an introduction to Mr Meade, a senior student at St Bartholomew's and a comparative anatomist and articulator of skeletons who wished to become a candidate for the College of Surgeons curatorship, and a request for Bennett to check a reference to 'Zoologie de la Caquille'

Letter accepting the invitation to Baron Cuvier's dinner

Letter from J Forbes Royle regarding an oration at the opening of London University. Sends a useful addition to your collection of drawings

Letters from John Sabine regarding the housing of the Rhinoceros and Tapir, conversations with Fuller about a larger repository for the greater carnivores, committee meetings of the Zoological Society of London and the dismissal of the head gardener and his recommendation of Morris Burr as his successor

Letters from Monsieur A Valenciennes of the Jardin des Plantes in Paris regarding the fish Alepisaurus and of the progress of zoological science and of co-operation