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              NZSL/HOD/5/3/16 · Item · 12 Aug 1874
              Part of Non-ZSL Collections

              Zoological Society of London
              11 Hanover Square
              London W

              12th Aug[us]t 1874

              Sir

              I am directed by the Council of this Society to acquaint you with the following resolution which was passed at their meeting held this day. "That B.H. Hodgson Esq. M.Z.S. be admitted a Fellow of the Society without a ballot in accordance with the Bye-Laws, and that his admission fee and [composition?] fee be remitted in acknowledgement of service rendered to Zoological Science, and to the Society"

              I am Sir
              Your Ob[e]d[ien]t Servant

              P.L. Sclater
              Secretary

              B.H. Hodgson Esq.

              NZSL/HOD/5/3/18 · Item · 12 Aug 1874
              Part of Non-ZSL Collections

              Zoological Society of London
              11 Hanover Square
              London W

              12 Aug[ust] 1874

              Sir

              I am directed by the Council of this Society to acquaint you with the following resolution which was passed at their meeting held this day "That the best thanks of the Society be offered to B.H. Hodgson Esq. F.Z.S. for his acceptable present of his collection of drawings and notes on Indian Mammals to the Society's Library"

              I am Sir
              Your ob[e]d[ien]t servant
              P.L. Sclater
              Secretary

              B.H. Hodgson Esq.

              NZSL/HOD/5/3/19 · Item · 30 Jan 1875
              Part of Non-ZSL Collections

              Zoological Society of London
              11, Hanover Square
              London W

              30th Jan[uary] 1875

              Dear Sir,

              I send the tickets herewith, we are greatly obliged to you for your letter concerning the drawings of birds in Mr. Hume's hands. I shall send him a copy of the letter so that he may have due notice of the destination of the drawings.

              Yours very truly
              P.L. Sclater

              To B.H. Hodgson Esq.

              NZSL/HOD/5/3/14 · Item · 20 Jul 1874
              Part of Non-ZSL Collections

              Zoological Society of London
              11 Hanover Square
              London W

              Dear Sir

              The package containing your collection of drawings is safely arrived and shall be placed in our Librarian's hands for examination and arrangement. I shall have the pleasure of specially reporting your liberal donation at the next Council. I shall also ask the Council to admit you Fellow in accordance with our Bye-Laws (ch.vii) as requested in your letter.

              Yours faithfully

              P.L. Sclater

              B.H. Hodgson Esq.

              NZSL/HOD/5/4/20 · Item · 12 Jun 1845
              Part of Non-ZSL Collections

              Dublin
              University Museum
              12 June 1845

              Sir

              My friend Mr. Grey has just forwarded to me your notification of your liberal donation of 290 Birds from Nepal, duplicates of the magnificent collection found by you in that country, on their arrival I will lose no time in brining the matter before the Board who will I have no doubt instruct me to convey their [marked?] thanks for your liberality in the [meantime?] while I beg to assure you that all possible pains will be taken to make your donations useful in promoting the study of Zoology here

              I have the honor
              Sir
              Your obedient
              humble Servant
              R.H. Ball
              Director of the Museum

              To B. H. Hodgson

              NZSL/HOD/5/4/5 · Item · 23 Dec 1844
              Part of Non-ZSL Collections

              Dec 23rd 1844
              R[oya]l College of Surgeons

              Dear Sir,

              I am requested by the President of the College to express to you the pleasure with which the College will receive the osteological specimens of the animals of Nepal and Tibet which you have liberally offered to present to the College and to state that the earliest leisure which I can [command?] will be devoted to the examination of such specimens and the deduction of the inferences as to the natural affinities and habits of the species, in order to furnish you with the information you are desirous to possess. The visit to the Museum with which you favoured me on Friday may have afforded you some means of judging of the probably advantage to Science and to the furtherance of your own investigations of the Fauna of Nepal and Tibet which may accrue by the deposition of your osteological collections in the Hunterian Museum. I need scarcely add that the expense of package and [transmission?] will be defrayed by the College, and I remain
              Dear Sir
              Yours truly

              B.H. Hodgson Esq
              Richd Owen

              NZSL/HOD/5/2/3 · Item · 15 September 1837
              Part of Non-ZSL Collections

              Muttra 15th Sept

              To B H Hodgson Esqre
              RD Agent
              Goo Gal
              Katmandoo
              Nepaul

              My dear Sir
              I fear you will have thought me forgetful of you, but to shew you, I have not been so, I send half a dozen lines to say that more than 5 weeks ago I sent over to Major Herring of the 37th Regt. N.I. at Agra a case in which, there is a Tin Case containing the few specimens of Birds that I had and which I requested him to get down to Mr [Grey?] at Patna by the first opportunity, as yet no opportunity has offered, but in all this month, we may [?] calculate up on one presenting itself - the delay I hope will not be [material?] the Birds have been very securely packed in Tin and [?] down so that we may feel pretty confident that they will reach you in good order. To each specimen I have appended a brief note which will give you all the particulars that I am in possession of regarding them: some two or three specimens will I doubt not be new to you, and I shall be grateful if the lost prove acceptable. Yesterday I obtained two Bustards for you from the neighbourhood of [Hansia?] and these, I will forward also to Dinapoor by an early opportunity with anything else, that I may meet with which I think may prove an acquisition to your Museum. The Bat and two or three others of the same order I will also send down. I did not like to put the Bottles containing them with the Birds fearing that accidental breakage might destroy the entire [lot?] I very much regret to say that up to this hour I have been able to procure a good specimen of the [Bijoo?] such as I could send to you. The weather has been so unseasonable and the ground is [?] so dry, from want to Rain that the Kanjurs cannot get at them, if we have a good fall of water soon i.e. before my duties carry me into the district, I yet trust we shall be able to procure you a specimen or two male and female if possible. When you write me again just say in what way you would wish them to be preserved and how I can best manage it. [Devarell Rupesh Lebveld?] a good friend of mine used to pack Mamlia in Jars containing a mixture of [Jpait?] Alum and Spices. If you approve of this plan - and if so I shall follow it you perhaps can give me a Rp for the Pickle. About a fortnight ago my people accidentally met a couple of Kanjurs, conveying a dead Bijoo into the city, they brought the Men and Animal to me, but it was in such a mutilated state, and so advances in putrefication that it's skeleton would have been useless. I made a few notes which I herewith send you, which shall be added to if I have the good fortune to get possession of another Bijoo ere I proceed into the district on Duty. I merely copy the remarks as I entered them in my private Memorandum Book.
              IN MY PRIVATE MEMORANDUM BOOK
              Lessitox: Common name Bijoo of the Western [states]
              Female: full size killed near [Mathea] and brought for my inspection on 4th Sept 1837
              Food: Carrion of every description by reports of the Kanjurs
              Abode: In holes of all varieties of depth, but chiefly under the foundations of old ruins report by Kanjurs
              Weight 19lb 10 ounces avoirdupois. Extreme length from point of nose to extremity of tail 3 feet. From nose to first cerebral vertebra 7 3/4 inches. Length of [?] 2 3/4 inches From neck to Anus 20 inches. Length of Tail 7 inches. Measure across the shoulders to the extremity of the longest claws of the forefeet 28 1/2 inches. Length of Fore limb, from Shoulders to the extremity of the longest nail 13 1/2 inches. Length of head - Do- from Hip to extremity of longest nail 12 inches. Length of Fore Foot from extremity of Heel to point longest nail 5 1/2 inches.-Do- of Hind Foot - Do- Do Do -To -Do - Do- 4 3/4 inches 5 toes armed with Nails on each fore foot: Inner toe of nail shortest outer Toe and nail, next shortest. 3 centre Toes and Nails excepting that the hind nails are only half the length of the fore ones. Length of longest nail on Fore Foot 1/4 inch -Do Do- Do- Do- Hind foot 1/2 inch. or a little more. Teats on 2 each side of the abdomen one inch asunder on the same side and 3 inches separate, across the abdomen, the lowest Teat is situated 4 inches from the Inferior orifice of the Vagina.

              Teeth in half the upper Jaw
              3 false Molars
              1 small Bicuspidate
              1 Canine and 3 Incisors:
              The latter are by no means
              trenchant but short project
              little from the alveolar process
              and are extremely blunt

              [SKETCH]

              This sketch will perhaps make clear the meas[uremen]ts. Teeth in half lower Jaw the same as in the upper excepting 2 Incis. Teeth The only one there is short and blunt
              Teeth 8 upper jaw
              6 lower jaw

              Extreme length of the alimentary canal 13 feet 9 1/2 inches, that is from the upper point of the osophagus to [cardiac] orifice 16 1/2 inches, length of stomach 7 inches and from pyloric orifice to the extreme point of the intestine at the anus 11 feet 10 inches. Stomach was empty, and so the intestines. The former I filled with liquid tying it just below the pyloric, and filling it up to the origin of the cardiac orifice. It contained when full, and quite distended 32 1/2 ounces [of] fluid. Apothecaries measure- Colour of the animal: is as follows: Throat, Chest, Abdomen, Inside Arms and Thighs deep dirty brown and scantily covered with course black hairs- surface of Head, Neck, Body and to within an inch of the extremity of the Tail, light dirty white approaching to grey: the Hair thick, throughout: from Eye Lids to Nose deep black: Eye Lids are rigid and provided with Eyebrows: The Ears are provided with little or no whiskers are perceptible, a few straggling hairs arise in the Upper Lip: The Arms and Legs are black. The animal altogether strongly resembles the 'Teledu' or 'Mydaws' Meliceps of Dr Horsfield, but it is more [disgusting?] has the white stripe on the back more extreme; its tail is longer, and sharp pointed, the snout also is not so long; neither is the eye situated so high in the head. I send you a slight sketch of the beast, merely to show you how deep the white stripe runs down the side: it is like the animal and quickly copied from a drawing I made of the beast at the time I examined it.
              Such my dear Sir, are the particulars I have been able to collect from you, thus far, but they shall be rendered still more complete, if I can only get hold of another animal. This Bijoo, is of the Mephitic Weasel Tribe, and had it been in a bearable state, I would (with the [?] of a medical friend of mine) have looked at the [nephritic?] glands and glands from whence the secretion comes. We will do so with the next however. Pardon this hurried letter, I am much interrupted, and [otherwise?] suffering from a sharp attack of morbid sensibility of the stomach and intestines which materially distracts my head and mind. I need not say I shall most happily render myself of service to you in any way and therefore beg you will not hesitate to [use?] me if I can aid you in search of Indian Mamalia
              Yours very truly
              Robt. Wroughton

              NZSL/HOD/5/5/52 · Item · 11 May 1850
              Part of Non-ZSL Collections

              M------
              11th May 1850

              My dear Hodgson

              In the hurry and bustle and excitement of leaving Dorjiling [?] I had not, or rather did not avail myself of an opportunity of saying what I felt at the time very strongly how much I was indebted to you for your kindness during the many pleasant days which I spent in your house I trust therefore you will excuse my putting on paper what I neglected to say at the time. I shall long look back with pleasure to the happy months I spent at Dorjiling and to the extreme kindness of every one there. Joe and I only arrived at this place last evening, and have been most kindly received by Dr. Lamb we have had a good deal of heat and our progress has been very tedious. Our morning walks have however been very productive botanically but we are not anxious to linger with the thermometer at 97 for a longer period than is absolutely necessary and are already longing for the time when we shall commence the ascent towards Churra. We have given up our contemplated visit to [G] Dr Lamb assures us that several days would be required to see the place at all - and we have not time to spare, and a hurried look is not worth while, we go on at once after breakfast towards [B] which we hope to reach on the fourth day at the furthest. I do not think that the ten days of our journey have produced any event very worthy of record beyond the usual porpoises and alligators of a Bengal Nullah. Many parts of the Mahanuddy are very narrow quite equal like, very deep, sluggish and peculiar. Here it is a fine wide river with an [?] population on both banks.

              Believe me ever
              Yrs very truly

              Thomas Thomson

              NZSL/HOD/5/4/22 · Item · 15 Aug 1845
              Part of Non-ZSL Collections

              Director General
              of the Medical Department
              of the Navy

              Haslar Hospital Museum and Library

              Admiralty 15th August 1845

              Sir

              I have much pleasure in acknowledging your Contribution, as per Margin to the Museum and Library established at the Royal Navy Hospital at Haslar, for the benefit of the Medical Officers of the Navy, and to request that you will accept my thanks for the support you thus afford to the Establishment

              I am Sir
              Your very humble Servant
              [W Burnett]
              Director General

              [Margin notes]
              2 skulls of Hill-man
              from the Valley of Nepal
              79 osteological specimens
              of the Birds of Nepal

              To B.H. Hodgson Esqre
              Late British Minister at
              the Court of Nepal
              Longport
              Canterbury