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SEC/11/2/6/3 · File · 1946
Part of ZSL Secretaries

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

SUP/5/1/2/166 · File · 1946
Part of Superintendents

Correspondence between the Museum of Zoology at the University of Cambridge and Geoffrey Marr Vevers regarding eggs for the egg-tasting panel, and a donation of grass snakes to the Museum of Zoology

Museum report
MUS/1 · File · 1833
Part of ZSL Museum

Day by day account of work in the ZSL Museum. Divided into Accessions, Anatomy, Preserving Department, Museum, Stores. Written by the Superintendent of the Museum, William Martin. Occasional entries by John Gilbert. Also mentions the work of Alexander Chambers, John Gould and Richard Owen.

Museum Returns
MUS/5 · File · 1851
Part of ZSL Museum

Returns of specimens in the Museum of the Zoological Society of London, including dried specimens of fish and reptiles, mounted mammalia, mounted birds, skulls, skeletons and small collections

Musgrave, George
SEC/6/42 · Item · 1855
Part of ZSL Secretaries

Letter from George Musgrave to David William Mitchell regarding marks in the snow and wishing to know what animals may have left the prints

CUR/3/3/3/1 · Part
Part of Curators and Keepers

SUMMARY:
Scrapbook page introducing a section about an appointment at the 'Zoo' spanning July 1923 to January 1924. Includes a clipping describing turtles (loggerhead and hawksbill) in a tank at the Aquarium of the New York Zoological Society, noting a similar exhibit planned for the 'Zoo'.

CONTENT:
MY APPOINTMENT AT
THE "ZOO" OR
THE "GREAT OFFENSIVE"
JULY 1923 TO JANUARY 1924

SCRAP
Book

SWIMMING IN ONE OF THE TANKS AT THE AQUARIUM OF THE NEW YORK ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY: TURTLES OF TWO TYPES, THE LOGGERHEAD AND HAWKBILL—
AN EXHIBIT SUCH AS LONDONERS WILL SEE BEFORE LONG AT THE "ZOO."