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Report of a meeting between the Trustees of the British Museum and the representatives of the Museum Conference of Naturalists, with correspondence, a memorandum on the problem of combining the administrative and technical or scientific direction of National Museums with special reference to the British Museum (Natural History) and papers from meetings

Lists specimens sent to the Natural History Museum

Minutes also mention the work of William Martin, John Gould, George Waterhouse and Louis Fraser.

Correspondence between Pat Maxwell and George Soper Cansdale regarding sending dead snakes to the Royal Albert Memorial Museum at Exeter

Maps of Oman

Letter from Arthur Loveridge of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard University, to Joan Procter regarding a shipment of reptiles for London Zoo

Letter from R Leyland referring to the publication of Curtis and Stevens on British Insects. He says he may be able to send some insects not very common in the south. Also includes a list of genera 'which would be acceptable here'

Letters from Johann Ludwig Gerhard Krefft of the Australian Museum in Sydney, to Philip Lutley Sclater

Lists specimens in the Museum, with an arrival date, whether stuffed or in spirit, country, how obtained, and occasionally who deposited them. Arrival dates are from 1827-1840. Split into three groups of animals. Some specimens are from Sir Stamford Raffles' Sumatran collection. 

Letter from, Bruce S Ingram to Philip Lutley Sclater requesting an illustration in the Illustrated London News of the mammal newly discovered by Sir Harry Johnston