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Prater, Louis

SEC/5/1/4 • Item • 1845
Manchester March 14 1845 Sir There is one Lion with a good and showy mane. he has a defective tail, that is to say the last three inches of it is turned up abruptly; this beast I should not like to give more than three hundred guineas for - the se...

Owen, Richard Sir

SEC/5/1/3 • Item • 1840
1840 My dear Ogilby Your letter came to me while I was at Cambridge - I am sorry I cannot be at the Committee tonight: tho points I have to offer to your and the Committee's notice respecting the big birds bone are simply my conviction that it is a...

Letter from William Ogilby to E J Bennett

SEC/5/1/2/2 • Item • Undated
Tuesday morn 51 York St My dear Sir I am truly sorry that you should have had so much trouble about a thing in itself of very small consequence. I shall therefore leave the matter entirely in your hands, as I must cordially agree in your observation...

Letter from William Ogilby to E J Bennett

SEC/5/1/2/1 • File • Undated
My dear Sir I saw the skin of O Brevirostus this day at one o'clock' and examined it attentively without discovering the ocellus spot though in the other two skins it is of considerable extent too large. I should think to be so completely concealed b...

William Ogilby

SEC/5 • Series • 1840-1847
William Ogilby was a zoologist. He is perhaps best known for this work around the classification order of cheiropoda, linking mammals who had hands. He was ZSL Secretary from 1839-1847.

Letter from Edmund Wallace Elmslie

SEC/5/1/1/2 • Item • 7 Feb 1844
7th Feby 1844 I hereby declare that Messrs Piper have not received any authorisation from me in writing or otherwise to underlet any part of the works in or about the terrace and dens - or in the Museum located in the Gardens of the Zoological Socie...

Indenture between Edmund Wallace Elmslie and The Zoological Society of London

SEC/5/1/1/1 • Item • 26 May 1847
This Indenture made the twenty sixth day of May One thousand, eight hundred and forty seven between Edmund Wallace Elmslie of Carlton Chambers, Regent Street in the County of Middlesex, Architect of the one part and The Zoological Society of London o...

Martin, William

SEC/4/5 • Item • 1839
Not the first Gibbon [JES?} Bristol & Clifton Zoological Gardens Oct 23 1839 Sir You will most probably have heard that we have had in our collection for several months a very fine specimen of the Active Gibbon of Ungka-Puti, Hylobates Agilis of F...
Bristol, England

Fuller, Augustus Elliott

SEC/4/4 • Item • 1839
Bodorgan 5th [Dec] 1839 My dear Sir On my arrival here yesterday my son [John] Fuller Meyrick [Keeper] had just shot an Eagle on the rocks by the sea side within about a mile from his House. It was in the act of eating a Rabbit when he shot him, a...
Anglesey, Wales

Bradley, Thomas

SEC/4/3 • Item • 1839
Royal Gallery of Practical Science July 29th 1839 Sir I have persuaded the Council of this institution to part with the Specimen of the Gymnotus Electrivus which has now been a year in our possession for although by care, we have brought the animal...
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Prater, Louis

SEC/5/1/4 • Item • 1845
Manchester March 14 1845 Sir There is one Lion with a good and showy mane. he has a defective tail, that is to say the last three inches of it is turned up abruptly; this beast I should not like to give more than three hundred guineas for - the se...

Owen, Richard Sir

SEC/5/1/3 • Item • 1840
1840 My dear Ogilby Your letter came to me while I was at Cambridge - I am sorry I cannot be at the Committee tonight: tho points I have to offer to your and the Committee's notice respecting the big birds bone are simply my conviction that it is a...

Letter from William Ogilby to E J Bennett

SEC/5/1/2/2 • Item • Undated
Tuesday morn 51 York St My dear Sir I am truly sorry that you should have had so much trouble about a thing in itself of very small consequence. I shall therefore leave the matter entirely in your hands, as I must cordially agree in your observation...

Letter from William Ogilby to E J Bennett

SEC/5/1/2/1 • File • Undated
My dear Sir I saw the skin of O Brevirostus this day at one o'clock' and examined it attentively without discovering the ocellus spot though in the other two skins it is of considerable extent too large. I should think to be so completely concealed b...

William Ogilby

SEC/5 • Series • 1840-1847
William Ogilby was a zoologist. He is perhaps best known for this work around the classification order of cheiropoda, linking mammals who had hands. He was ZSL Secretary from 1839-1847.

Letter from Edmund Wallace Elmslie

SEC/5/1/1/2 • Item • 7 Feb 1844
7th Feby 1844 I hereby declare that Messrs Piper have not received any authorisation from me in writing or otherwise to underlet any part of the works in or about the terrace and dens - or in the Museum located in the Gardens of the Zoological Socie...

Indenture between Edmund Wallace Elmslie and The Zoological Society of London

SEC/5/1/1/1 • Item • 26 May 1847
This Indenture made the twenty sixth day of May One thousand, eight hundred and forty seven between Edmund Wallace Elmslie of Carlton Chambers, Regent Street in the County of Middlesex, Architect of the one part and The Zoological Society of London o...

Martin, William

SEC/4/5 • Item • 1839
Not the first Gibbon [JES?} Bristol & Clifton Zoological Gardens Oct 23 1839 Sir You will most probably have heard that we have had in our collection for several months a very fine specimen of the Active Gibbon of Ungka-Puti, Hylobates Agilis of F...
Bristol, England

Fuller, Augustus Elliott

SEC/4/4 • Item • 1839
Bodorgan 5th [Dec] 1839 My dear Sir On my arrival here yesterday my son [John] Fuller Meyrick [Keeper] had just shot an Eagle on the rocks by the sea side within about a mile from his House. It was in the act of eating a Rabbit when he shot him, a...
Anglesey, Wales

Bradley, Thomas

SEC/4/3 • Item • 1839
Royal Gallery of Practical Science July 29th 1839 Sir I have persuaded the Council of this institution to part with the Specimen of the Gymnotus Electrivus which has now been a year in our possession for although by care, we have brought the animal...
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