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Philadelphia Zoo
SUP/6/1/1/6 · Item · 1948
Part of Superintendents

Letter regarding a shipment of Hedgehogs from the Zoological Society of London to the Zoological Society of Philadelphia

SUP/5/1/1/105 · File · 1945
Part of Superintendents

Correspondence between Geoffrey Marr Vevers and Philadelphia Zoological Garden regarding shipments of animals between their zoos, including Kodiak Bears, Coyotes, Raccoons, Aoudads, Thars, Opposums, Turkey Vultures, Screech Owls, Robins, Purple Grackles, Wood Thrushes, Olive-backed Thrush, Bicknell's Thrush, reptiles and amphibians

Philadelpia Zoo
CUR/7/3/17 · File · 1949
Part of Curators and Keepers

Correspondence with Philadelphia Zoo regarding the transport of snakes and the breeding of Tarsiers

REP/4 · File · 1934-1940
Part of Reports

List of American zoos by A Lindsay; Report of a visit to New York and Chicago (1936); 'Notes on visits to some foreign zoos, 1934 and 1935' by Huxley (covering New York Bronx, Philadelphia, Washington, Paris Vincennes, Hamburg, Berlin, Munich Hellabrun, & Frankfurt); extract from report on the British Colonial Exhibit, World's Fair, New York, 1939; Report on visit to Austria and Germany by D Seth Smith (c1937); Report on a visit to the Zoological Gardens at Antwerp, Rotterdam and Amsterdam (1935); Report on a visit to France (1938); letter from Chalmers Mitchell to the Directors of Zoological Gardens in Germany, introducing Huxley, 1935; handwritten notes on zoos; notebook; 'La Reproduction des Animaux Sauvages en Captivite' by A Urbain; Report on visit to Brookfield Zoo (1940); guide to Internationalen Jagdaustellung, Berlin, 1937.

United States Lines
SUP/5/1/1/133 · File · 1945
Part of Superintendents

Correspondence between United States Lines and Geoffrey Marr Vevers regarding the transport of animals and museum specimens to Philadelphia on the Russell R. Jones