Letters from Sir Robert Ker Porter in Caracas thanking Bennett for the his letter and Proceedings of the Society's committees, the good health of a tapir, a bear belonging to a resident in Caracas, a bird called Curapoas (or Forvies), the shipment of a Capuchin Monkey, 'a very curious little animals of the weasel kind, and six land tortoises by the Brig 'Pedraza', a consignment he received save for the weasel which was washed overboard, and descriptions of the consignment in the 'Pedraza'

Correspondence with the collector B L Mitchell regarding animals to be collected from Nyasaland for the Zoological Society of London, including Vervet Monkeys, Jackal cubs, Martial Hawk Eagle, Pangolins and Bush Babies

Correspondence with G C Sauvage regarding animals for sale including Sitentunga, Reticulated Giraffes, a Brazza Monkey, Waterbuck, Vultures, Gazelles and Canaries

Correspondence with Allen Silver regarding the donation of a Guereza Monkey to the Zoological Society of London

Atheneum Club Pall Mall

Nov 30 187-
7.30pm

Your Royal Highness

My Page Boy has just brought your telegram. You are most kind the Hedgehogs will be most acceptable.
I am writing about them in a new edition of White's Selbourne. I expect they were discovered when hybernating any particulars will be acceptable.

Yours most obliged

Frank Buckland

I want to see how many spines a hedgehog has I shall make one into a pie and boils his skin and count the spines. So much obliged.
I shall see if the hedgehogs will agree with my Monkeys I have four now.
Please send them to 37 Albany St.

Colour negatives taken in the Hong Kong Zoological and Botanical Gardens, of the mammal house, dated November 1974; lemurs, marmosets, a Celebes ape and an agouti, dated 1975; orangutans, dated May 1978; a hand-reared squirrel monkey and other mammals, dated 25 September 1975

Correspondence between Sir Arthur Landsborough Thomson and L Harrison Matthews regarding meetings of the Selection Committee, the Annual Report, meetings of the Finance Committee, meetings of the Publications Committee, statement of the duties of Honorary Officers, the arrangement of Committees, abstracts in the Ibis, the Zoological Record, the Chairman of the Pink Elephants, the Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, Scientific Meetings, the British Guiana expedition, meetings of the Prosectorial Committee, the United Workers' Association, Professional Fellows, the Medical Research Council, the Centenary celebration of Madras Zoo, allegations against staff, Gerbils of the genus Meriones, and cases of controlling inter-current tuberculosis among colonies of monkeys

Composer: Robert Coote