Lists specimens sent to the Natural History Museum

Includes: Report on the value of the Reserved Collection, 1851; Dr Crisp. Museum Stores; List of Animals Presented to the Norwich Collection; Catalogue of specimens of cruise, 1849; etc. Also includes printed extracts from the Annual Reports regarding the Museum, and a printed petition to the Chancellor of the Exchequer to buy the collection. The Dr Crisp item is a list of articles purchased by him from the Museum, including the skin of a giraffe. 

Letters from S A Drummond Hay to Nicholas Aylward Vigors regarding specimens of zoology in the vicinity of Tangier

Letter from Hugh Cuming to Edward Turner Bennett, apologising for being unable to meet him with a portion of his shells

Letter from the Secretary of the United Services Museum, accompanying two specimens of birds killed in Mexico and of a Scoter killed at Southampton. The letter asks the Zoological Society of London to inspect and return them

Correspondence between British Museum (Natural History) and Geoffrey Marr Vevers regarding a report of a Black-Headed Gull to the Bird-Ringing Committee at the British Museum of Natural History, articles on Okapi by Reginald Innes Pocock, an account of the baby Dendrohyrax by Cecil Stanley Webb , Antarctic Seals, skins and skulls of small carnivores, the fox which the Zoological Society of London received from Tel Aviv Gardens, an exhibition of Tree Hyraxes, exhibits for Major Cottam, donations of specimens to the British Museum (Natural History), mongoose skins, Tangier Smith's location in Sze Chuan to locate the original Pandas, the release of Kodiak Bears at Whipsnade Zoo, publications by Doubleday on the Giant Panda, rings for a Golden Eagle from the Bird-Ringing Committee, the species of Monkey from Northern Nigeria, a Leopard from the Himalayas, measurements of the Kodiak Bears called Kam and Schatka at Whipsnade, and a donation of Hedgehogs to the USA

Letter regarding specimens of Cecilies

List of specimens sent to British Museum. Presumably compiled by JE Gray and GR Gray before their published version in 1846. Lists reveal 803 mammals, 4425 birds, 663 bird skins, 21 human skulls with origins

"List of the Specimens of Mammalia in the Collection of the British Museum.", 1843. Copy signed by Hodgson. Not annotated. "List of the Specimens of Birds in the Collection of the British Museum. Part I - Accipitres.", 1844. Copy signed by Hodgson. Not annotated. "Catalogue of the Specimens of Mammalia in the Collection of the British Museum. Part III. Ungulata furcipeda.", 1852. Copy annotated by Hodgson. "Catalogue of the Specimens and Drawings of Mammals, Birds, Reptiles, and Fishes of Nepal and Tibet, presented by B.H. Hodgson, Esq., to the British Museum. Second Edition.", 1863. Three copies annotated by Hodgson.

Catalogue of Nepalese Birds presented to As[iatic] Society and duly named and Classified by the Donor, Mr Hodgson (with Blyth's remarks added), 9 April 1842; Catalogue of Nepalese Birds presented to As[iatic] Society and duly named and Classified by the Donor, Mr Hodgson, not dated; List of Mammal skins and bones brought home in 1844 & presented to Br[itish] Mus[eum]; List of Drawings (new series) received from the Zoological Society, March 1845; List of New & Undescribed Species of Birds from Nepal presented to the Honourable East India Company by B.H. Hodgson, Esq., 23 Sept 1853; List of Mr Hodgson's Mammal drawings numbered by sheets according to the Count of February 1870; List of Mr Hodgson's collection of drawings of Mammalia numbered by sheets according to the Count of July 1874 (2 copies); List of drawings of Mammals given and sent to Zool Soc, 13 July 1874; Copy of letter to PL Sclater about Hodgson's annotated drawings which he will send to ZSL, 13 July 1874; Various receipts