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Two lists: birds and quadrupeds, 29 April 1851 to 29 April 1852. Signed by James Hunt, Head Keeper

David Seth Smith attended, as delegate of the Zoological Society and the Society for the Preservation of the Fauna of the Empire, the Meeting of the European Continental Section of the International Committee for Bird Preservation held in Vienna

Report on elephant enclosures, temperatures in various houses such as antelope and cattle sheds, possible overcrowding in bears' enclosures, inmates of cattle and deer sheds, the health of otters and coypus, numbers in the bird house and aviaries, bird house temperatures and the Three Island Pond

Report by David Seth-Smith, the Curator of Mammals and Birds to the War Emergency Committee, regarding reducing the stock of animals

Report on the Aquarium to the War Emergency Committee

Report of the Curator of Mammals and Birds to the War Emergency Committee

Report by the Curator of Mammals and Birds following his attendance at the International Ornithological Congress in Rouen and Paris

Letters from Thomas Mayne Reid to Philip Lutley Sclater regarding his sale of Jacob Sheep and books or papers about British birds

Correspondence between R G Readman and Geoffrey Marr Vevers regarding employment at the Zoological Society of London and the transportation of birds to England

Correspondence with Geoffrey Marr Vevers regarding general queries such as specimens of Hedgehogs, Birds of Prey, fencing for Bison, samples of bark, the flea Hectopsylla psittaci, insuring animals, big game hunters, a Llama cart, the well in the Zoological Gardens, cattle guards, the caring of monkeys as pets, a Tree Kangaroo named Minnie, the temperature in the Monkey House, bird life of the Cocos Islands, the bodies of Goldfish, measurements of the eyes of animals, photographs of the Penguin Pool and a broadcast on Children's Hour