Papers and correspondence relating to F C Akhurst's visit to Singapore to establish the Van Keef Aquarium

Memorandum by E G Boulenger, Director of the Aquarium, on a suggested branch aquarium at Weymouth

Letter from Dr E J Allen, FRS, Director of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom, regarding the question of supply of living specimens to the Aquarium

Secretary of State and Home Department

March 24 1877

Your Royal Highness

I am indeed most obliged to you for your very kind present. It is very beautiful and quite apropos to the work I like so much. I shall value it very much and am deeply grateful to you for it. I am looking forward some day next month to show you over the Brighton Aquarium I shall be free after 10 April. I have now [got?] to go to South Wales and Devonshire on Inspection duty I have not forgotten the Cray fish and the Swans.

Yours most obliged

Frank Buckland