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Police message from Vevers informing Lawrence an elephant has died and he is needed at London Zoo, 1939; Order of Proceedings for the presentation of British Empire medals, 9 Nov 1953; obituary of Lawrence in "Nature", 1961, black and white photographs and newspapers. Also two medals from the Zoological Society of London for long service the British Empire Medal

Volume listing holders of ivory tickets to both the Zoo and Aquarium, between 1897 and 1949. List seems not complete. Ivory tickets were issued as yearly entrances passes into the Zoo/Aquarium and would be handed over/shown at the gate in the same way

Correspondence between G Izzard and George Soper Cansdale regarding an offer of African Hairless Dogs and Wild Hogs to the Zoological Society of London

Letters to Philip Lutley Sclater

Correspondence between J & F Obree and Geoffrey Marr Vevers regarding an import licence and a collection of snakes being transported by Peter Scott to the Zoological Society of London

Letters from J & R Kemp and Co to Philip Lutley Sclater regarding Regent's Canal City and Docks Railway Bill

Letter regarding the shipment of bananas, oranges and sugar cane

Letter regarding a Bill of Lading for the wild animals shipped to the Zoological Society of London per S.S. City of Calcutta