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Letters from Alfred Russel Wallace to Philip Lutley Sclater regarding the purchase of a joint residential estate, extracts read at meetings of the Zoological Society of London, papers for the Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London and Natural Science, his publication on 'Monkeys - their structure, affinities and distribution', a shipment of birds for the Society, improvements to the Gardens of the Zoological Society of London, notes on the Umbrella Bird, his election as a Fellow, papers on marine mammals, opinions on theories by Darwin, Birds of Paradise, and a list of butterflies of Costa Rica

Letters from Frederick W Waller to Philip Lutley Sclater regarding No 3 Hanover Square, with a report and plans of the property

Sir John Walsh presents his compliments to Mr Vigors & begs to represent to him the impertinence which he experienced from a Gate Keeper of the name of Parker at the Zoological Gardens this afternoon. This person in demanding Sir John's umbrella & in reply to an observation that as shown was threatening, he was unwilling to relinquish it and with great insolence that it was no use taking, he must have it, & his behaviour was the more improper as Sir John was accompanied by Lady Jane & his children. If the Society find it necessary to adopt a regulation, which in a large garden, & in a showery season must be admitted to be an inconvenient & annoying one to the visitors, it must be their wish that it should be enforced with the greatest civility and they cannot desire to licence their Servants to accost persons of respectability with the manners and tone of a police officer to a pickpocket

28 Berkeley Square
Wednesday

Complaint against Gate Keeper
24 June [1830]

Letter regarding a Pheasant which was received by train. It was a cross between a Golden and Amhersts Pheasant

Correspondence with Dr Marion Wanliss of the Native Fauna Conservation Society regarding native fauna conservation in Australia

Minutes of the War Emergency Committee of the Zoological Society of London

Reports to the Zoological Society of London War Emergency Committee

Paper on the the war situation and the Zoological Society's general policy

Report by the Assistant Treasurer and Superintendent on the war time scheme for horticulture, agriculture, pig and poultry keeping at Whipsnade and Regent's Park

Letter from the Zoological Society of London to Mr Ward regarding his son Douglas and his offer to act as the Society's agent in Whitstable to procure living specimens for the Society's Aquarium