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Letter from the Deputy High Commissioner of Australia to Geoffrey Marr Vevers regarding a couple who would be capable of looking after the breeding of various kinds of rare birds on a property recently presented to the Zoological Board of Victoria

Correspondence between the Duke of Bedford and Geoffrey Marr Vevers regarding the importation of Kangaroos from Australia, Pere David Deer at Whipsnade, the transfer of Deer to New York Zoo, and New Zealand Brown Ducks in the Waders Aviary. Also a biography of the 11th Duke of Bedford

Correspondence with Geoffrey Marr Vevers regarding general queries such as specimens of Hedgehogs, Birds of Prey, fencing for Bison, samples of bark, the flea Hectopsylla psittaci, insuring animals, big game hunters, a Llama cart, the well in the Zoological Gardens, cattle guards, the caring of monkeys as pets, a Tree Kangaroo named Minnie, the temperature in the Monkey House, bird life of the Cocos Islands, the bodies of Goldfish, measurements of the eyes of animals, photographs of the Penguin Pool and a broadcast on Children's Hour

Correspondence with Geoffrey Marr Vevers regarding sending a representative from Taronga Zoological Park to the Zoological Society of London to study their methods of combating various diseases which Melbourne Aquarium were suffering from

Letter from John Alger to Philip Lutley Sclater ahead of his visit to Australia

Letters from Morton Allport to Philip Lutley Sclater about the introduction of salmon to the waters of Tasmania

Letter from Lewis Adolphus Bernays to Philip Lutley Sclater regarding the Acclimatisation Society of Queensland

Letter from William Brown to Philip Lutley Sclater regarding the price of a koala or native bear, and a request for reptiles from Queensland

Letters from William Saville Kent of the Museum and Institute of Pisciculture Society Limited, to Philip Lutley Sclater regarding the establishment of a marine observatory and laboratory in connection with the Brighton Aquarium, his appointment as Inspector of Fisheries to the Government of Tasmania, his application to become a Fellow of the Zoological Society of London, his inspection of the fish house, enquiries about the vacant post of Prosector, and a proposed British Zoological Station for the study of marine animals and plats with relation to the advancement of the sciences of biology and economic pisciculture

Letters from Johann Ludwig Gerhard Krefft of the Australian Museum in Sydney, to Philip Lutley Sclater