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Letters from Monsieur A Valenciennes of the Jardin des Plantes in Paris regarding the fish Alepisaurus and of the progress of zoological science and of co-operation

Letter from R Walford stating that his carpenter is preparing specifications and an estimate for a temporary Giraffe House. Requests that Edward Turner Bennett ask Mr Burton to attend a Council meeting

Letter from H Woods who says he spoke to Wombwell (a dealer in Commercial Road) about the kangaroo. He would be satisfied with the female and would give an equivalent. He had his eye on a bear in the corner on the left of the elephants. He encloses a drawing of the head of the bear but the den was too dark to see it distinctly

Letter from G O Wooler saying that he had come up from Wolsingham to see his son Joseph, who had been in Bombay and had brought back a Black Dog (domesticated in Bombay although of the species Parish - wild dog). He considers that it is what Captain Williams calls a Dhole, which usually go in packs

Letter from Dr Wrathermad enclosing a more extended comment for his friend Mr Maude's letter reporting the burrowing of Ornithorguchus

Letters from William Yarrell regarding a heraldic question raised by Edward Turner Bennett, an unspecified dispute which had been considered at a meeting of the Council at Grosvenor Square, and a manuscript of Walcott's 'British Birds' asking Bennett to allow the dates 1784 and 1785 to stand since Walcott left Teignmouth for Chelsea in 1786 and was resident in Chelsea in 1787

The Chillingham Cattle Fund was set up in 1932 to preserve the herd of rare cattle at Chillingham Park when it could no longer be supported by the Earl of Tankerville. It was superseded by the Chillingham Wild Cattle Association Limited

Project Seahorse was co-founded by ZSL in 1996 to conserve and achieve the sustainable use of seahorses around the globe

Papers on London Zoo conservation and management

Proposals; Project reports; "Philippines Biodiversity Conservation Programme - an introduction'