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Archival description
The Tiger 'Rajah'
SEC/9/2/19/8 · Item · May 1926
Part of ZSL Secretaries

Copies of correspondence between the Secretary and Mrs Sim regarding the welfare of the Tiger called 'Rajah' at the Gardens of the Zoological Society of London

Shaw, Alexander
SEC/6/49 · File · 1851
Part of ZSL Secretaries

Letters from Alexander Shaw to David William Mitchell regarding tigers from Bombay sent to the Zoological Society of London

Partridge, P W
SUP/5/1/4/23 · File · 1948
Part of Superintendents

Correspondence between P W Partridge and Geoffrey Marr Vevers regarding a story about Tigers

Outram, James, Sir
SEC/6/44 · File · 1851
Part of ZSL Secretaries

Correspondence between Sir James Outram and David William Mitchell regarding an offer of tigers and a request for game birds, hunting cheetahs, the common leopard, hyenas, jackals and wolves

Masters, W
SEC/2/1/51 · Item · 1833
Part of ZSL Secretaries

Letter from W Masters to Joseph Sabine at Bruton Street regarding a present received by Canterbury Museum from S R Lushington, recently returned from India, comprising of 2 Hunt Leopards, 1 Royal Tiger and 2 Black Monkeys. They are currently in the West Indies Docks. The Museum has no facilities for handling them and asks to send for the animals to Regent's Park

Khan Wild Animal Farm
CUR/7/4/21 · File · 1950
Part of Curators and Keepers

Correspondence with Khan Wild Animal Farm regarding the supply of animals, such as two Royal Bengal Tiger Cubs which were sent to Dudley Zoological Society

Gaekwar of Baroda
SUP/6/1/1/41 · File · 1949
Part of Superintendents

Correspondence between Gaekwar of Baroda and George Soper Cansdale regarding the Maharaja presenting a Tiger cub to the Zoological Society of London

Gaekwad, Ganpat Rao
SEC/6/23 · Item · 1851
Part of ZSL Secretaries

Letter to Ganpat Rao Gaekwad, Guicowar of Baroda, from the Zoological Society of London to acknowledge the safe arrival of a pair of tigers

Ezra, Alfred
SUP/5/1/4/9 · File · 1948
Part of Superintendents

Correspondence between Alfred Ezra and Geoffrey Marr Vevers regarding a suggestion that tigers are cannibals and Ezra going back on the Council of the Zoological Society of London. Also a newsletter of The New York Zoological Society

Dumbreck, William
SEC/6/18 · Item · 1855
Part of ZSL Secretaries

Letter from William Dumbreck to David William Mitchell offering to dispose of a tiger from the Edinburgh collection