Correspondence between British Museum (Natural History) and Geoffrey Marr Vevers regarding a report of a Black-Headed Gull to the Bird-Ringing Committee at the British Museum of Natural History, articles on Okapi by Reginald Innes Pocock, an account of the baby Dendrohyrax by Cecil Stanley Webb , Antarctic Seals, skins and skulls of small carnivores, the fox which the Zoological Society of London received from Tel Aviv Gardens, an exhibition of Tree Hyraxes, exhibits for Major Cottam, donations of specimens to the British Museum (Natural History), mongoose skins, Tangier Smith's location in Sze Chuan to locate the original Pandas, the release of Kodiak Bears at Whipsnade Zoo, publications by Doubleday on the Giant Panda, rings for a Golden Eagle from the Bird-Ringing Committee, the species of Monkey from Northern Nigeria, a Leopard from the Himalayas, measurements of the Kodiak Bears called Kam and Schatka at Whipsnade, and a donation of Hedgehogs to the USA
Letter regarding specimens of Cecilies
Lists date, lab number, ID number, animal, specimen, request, parasite and culture
Lists date, lab number, ID number, animal, specimen, request, parasite and culture
Lists date, lab number, ID number, animal, specimen, request, parasite and culture
Lists date, lab number, ID number, animal, specimen, request, parasite and culture
Lists specimens sent to the Natural History Museum
Includes: Report on the value of the Reserved Collection, 1851; Dr Crisp. Museum Stores; List of Animals Presented to the Norwich Collection; Catalogue of specimens of cruise, 1849; etc. Also includes printed extracts from the Annual Reports regarding the Museum, and a printed petition to the Chancellor of the Exchequer to buy the collection. The Dr Crisp item is a list of articles purchased by him from the Museum, including the skin of a giraffe.
Catalogue of Nepalese Birds presented to As[iatic] Society and duly named and Classified by the Donor, Mr Hodgson (with Blyth's remarks added), 9 April 1842; Catalogue of Nepalese Birds presented to As[iatic] Society and duly named and Classified by the Donor, Mr Hodgson, not dated; List of Mammal skins and bones brought home in 1844 & presented to Br[itish] Mus[eum]; List of Drawings (new series) received from the Zoological Society, March 1845; List of New & Undescribed Species of Birds from Nepal presented to the Honourable East India Company by B.H. Hodgson, Esq., 23 Sept 1853; List of Mr Hodgson's Mammal drawings numbered by sheets according to the Count of February 1870; List of Mr Hodgson's collection of drawings of Mammalia numbered by sheets according to the Count of July 1874 (2 copies); List of drawings of Mammals given and sent to Zool Soc, 13 July 1874; Copy of letter to PL Sclater about Hodgson's annotated drawings which he will send to ZSL, 13 July 1874; Various receipts