Letter from William Douglas Legg to Philip Lutley Sclater regarding the decision by the Council of the Zoological Society of London to prohibit viewings of the feedings of the snakes

Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals
Manchester Branch

9 Albert Square
Manchester

October 19th 1903

The Secretary
Zoological Gardens
Regents Park
London

Dear Sir

I am desired by my Committee to write and ask you for information on the following points:-

1. Is it a fact that Snakes in the Zool. Gardens at New York are not and never have been fed on live animals?
2. Are the Snakes at the Zoo in London fed on live animals, and if so on what kind of animals
3. If they are not so fed, what is the nature of the food given them?
4. What is your opinion as to food for Snakes. Is it necessary to feed them on living animals, or are all requirements met by feeding them on animals newly killed?

Any information you can give as to these points will be useful to us here and if you can let us have your replies to the above questions we shall be very greatly obliged

Yours faithfully

J. Lang

Sec.

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Letters from Albert Carl Ludwig Gotthilf Gunter to Philip Lutley Sclater regarding his papers for the Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, Dr Gray's paper on Chilean Deer, Krefft's, discovery of the Ceratodus Fosteri, plates of Swinhoe's snakes, salmonoids, heterodon dorbignyi and euophrys modestus

Correspondence between Jean Delacour and Geoffrey Marr Vevers regarding the acquisition and transport of Pere David's Deer from the Duke of Bedford for New York Zoological Society, and also the the transport of snakes

Correspondence between Geoffrey Marr Vevers and animal dealers such as the Snake King, the Earl of Yarborough, G C Sauvage and John Alabi & Company regarding animals for the Zoological Society of London

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Letters from Sir Percy Zachariah Cox to Philip Lutley Sclater regarding specimens of Oryx Beatrix, Dik Dik skeletons, snakes and antelopes. Also letters regarding his election and membership of the Zoological Society of London