Salmon Fisheries Office
4 Old Palace Yard
Westminster S.W.

Friday
Jan 17 1873

Your Royal Highness

I have made an anatomical examination of your pheasant and have reported on it in 'Land & Water' tomorrow Jan 18th. I will come to Windsor if your R.H. wishes any day, week if you will kindly give me notice. I have just received a basket with four pheasants allow me to thank you very much indeed for your great kindness

Yours most
obliged

Frank Buckland

I am going tomorrow with the Captain of an Arctic Whaling Ship to the Board of trade see if we can not get a treaty made between Norway, Denmark and England to prevent the fearful destruction of young Seals in March

Salmon Fisheries Office
4 Old Palace Yard
Westminster S.W.

Dec 22 1869

Your Royal Highness

I have seen Mr. Bartlett of the Zoological about your pheasants
1st He quite agrees with me that dampness is the cause of the malady and that therefore if it be possible the birds should be removed to a dryer place
2 He agrees with me that the place where they are confined should be roofed over, if the birds can not be removed.
3 He thinks that they should have pepper corns and that the person who feeds them should mix up some pepper corns in the food if they will not eat the pepper corns placed for them to pick up
4 We think that gravel is better than turf but that the best thing for them to walk on would be old brick and mortar rubbish - Mr Lee will make enquiries about the mole skins for them. The best man to dress them is Mr [Rulich] 8 Bettisland Street Hoxton. You can easily get enough for a waistcoat this year.

Your Royal Highness
Most Obedient

Frank Buckland

Correspondence between Mrs A Brown and Geoffrey Marr Vevers regarding a request for a pair of Wallabies, and payment for a pair of Reeves pheasants and an Edwards Cock

Correspondence between the Duke of Bedford and Geoffrey Marr Vevers regarding the exchange of animals between the Zoological Society of London and Woburn Safari Park, information about Chillingham Cattle and supporting the herd, the feeding of deer, the Duke of Bedford becoming a Member of the Council of the Zoological Society of London, pheasants and water fowl from the Continent, meetings of the Council, Pere David's Deer, and the importation of a European Bison bull from Poland for the Duke of Bedford

Correspondence between L G Brown and George Soper Cansdale regarding a donation of a Silver Pheasant to the Zoological Society of London

Correspondence between E F Sherriff and George Soper Cansdale regarding a Golden X Lady Ameherst Pheasant which was sent to the Zoological Society of London by Welwyn Garden City Police

Letter regarding a Pheasant which was received by train. It was a cross between a Golden and Amhersts Pheasant

Correspondence between Gaybird Pheasant Farm and George Soper Cansdale regarding a consignment of birds sent to Major Hendy in Swaziland

Correspondence between the Foo Kee Trading Company and George Soper Cansdale regarding the supply of Mikado Pheasants, Baikal Teal, Formosan Tree Partridge and Formosan Bamboo Partridge to the Zoological Society of London

Letters from Alexander Miller of the Zoological Gardens regarding a Chinese Pheasant which escaped and had been running in Park Street, Camden Town, an escape from the Dove House, the removal of an oak fence on the southern boundary, the health of a Rhinoceros, the Society's Cashmere Goat, his visit to City Road Basin, the purchase of a Chimpanzee, a visit by the Queen to the Gardens, a stillborn Rhesus Monkey, dimensions of the back of a new den for the Elephant and Rhinoceros, the cost of laying the floor of the Elephant and Rhinoceros House, the death of a Chimpanzee and the return of John Woodbridge with Cranes and Leopards