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Archival description
Legros, W B
SEC/6/32 · Item · 1848
Part of ZSL Secretaries

Letter from W B Legros to David William Mitchell regarding a present sent by the Zoological Society to Colonel Bonford and an assurance that Colonel Bonford has in his care the animals gifted by the late Viceroy of Egypt to the Zoological Society of London. Also thanks from Mr Murray for a copy of 'Views'

Lemurs
AQA/4 · File · 1959-1960
Part of Animal acquisitions

Contains a mention of David Attenborough's Zoo Quest to Madagascar

Zoological Society of London
Lewis, John Speden
SUP/5/1/3/27 · File · 1947
Part of Superintendents

Correspondence between John Spedan Lewis and Geoffrey Marr Vevers regarding articles in Zoo Life, the suggestion of a bowling green in Regent's Park which might be reserved for employees of the Zoological Society of London, a building for a staff club, a proposal to send tame animals to the John Lewis Partnership's party of disabled men from the Star and Garter, and findings of Broom in Africa

Library (ZSL)
SUP/5/1/2/141 · File · 1946
Part of Superintendents

Correspondence between ZSL Library and Geoffrey Marr Vevers regarding a report about Congo Elephants to be deposited in the Library, the return of a book to the Library called 'Wild Animals in Captivity, a collection of photographs taken by the husband of Cherry Kearton, and a donation of engravings from Lady Smith Woodward

Marr, J R
SUP/6/1/1/70 · Item · 1949
Part of Superintendents

Letter requesting specimens of lizards from North Africa

Matthews, Arnold Jerome
SEC/7/13/11 · File · 1885
Part of ZSL Secretaries

Letters from Arnold Jerome Matthews to Philip Lutley Sclater regarding an expedition to the Gabon for the purpose of procuring some young living specimens of the gorilla, then available to purchase by the Zoological Society of London