| Description | Deposits collected by HMS Rambler and HMS Penguin from the Tizard and Macclesfield Banks, China Sea with copy of covering letter by Commander W Osborne Moore to W J L Wharton, includes drafts notes to further reports and classifications, list of genus of corals, sketches, watercolours (crustacea resembling algae) and photographs by Percy William Bassett Smith [pp1-3, page 46]
List of Echiderms for Tokio [Tokyo, Japan] Museum 19 May 1888 [p4]
Collection of British Insects formed by Mr Clifton (the Hollies, Munster Road, Fulham W S) [p5]
Copy of letter from Charles Fagan on behalf of the Vigilance Committee of Civil Service concerning lobbying against reorganisation 21 Aug 1889 [p6]
HMS Challenger Collection of Actiniani and notes on Nemester collection send by Prof Hubrecht [notes by ?F J Bell] Nov 1889 [page 7]
Notes on the Zeller collection catalogue 12 December 1889 [page 8]
Lists of material not wholly received and/or catalogued/or missing from the HMS Challenger collections Dec 1899 [page 9]
Mr Butler's absences because of illness 1886-1889 [page 10]
Notes on Squirrel Scuirus Vulgaris presented by Lady Theodora Guest Molecombe House Shaftesbury Dec 1890 [page 11]
Instructions as to the treatment and disposal of duplicate specimens received from the Challenger office Feb 1890 [page 12]
Mr Littledale's Asiatic specimens (where to be sent to) April 1890 [page 13]
Instructions for Mr O Janson for packing the Frey collection of lepidoptera at Zurich [page 14]
Arrangements for conversazione at the Natural History Museum (Royal Colonial Institute 24 June 1890 and Society of Arts 27 June 1890)[ page 15]
Estimate for case for communication gallery, June 1890 [page 17]
Insects and birds presented by Colonel Charles Swinhoe November 1890 [page 18]
Drawers for British bird eggs cabinets, Dec 1890, [page 19]; notes on new egg cabinets Bowdler Sharpe April 1891 [page 26]
The Zoology of Fao [Al Faw, Iraq] Persian Gulf, Notes on collections of Vertebrates and invertebrates from Muscat by J A Murray, Kurachee Museum [Karachi] 1890 [page 20]
Notes on bryozoa by Kilpatrick [page 21]
Diagram of [bird] nest holes [page 22]
Collections in Department of Geology [Brady, Spratt, Adams, Beckles, Egerton & Enniskillen, Davidson, Edwards, Searles Wood, William Smith, Sowerby] [page 22a]
Annotated German newspaper cuttings concerning founding of Botany Department 1890 [page 23]
Cost of Walker's catalogues of Entomology March 1891 [page 24]
Sketch of Batrachian cases by Boulenger April 1891 [page 25]
Beddard's work april 1891 [page 27]
Time spent examining J J Lister's collections May 1891 [p28]
Arrangements for conversazione at the Natural History Museum for the Royal Colonial Institute 24 June 1891 [p29-30]
Report of trip to Batavia and Java and specimens collected by R Kirkpatrick 1891 [p31]
Bird exchange with Paris Museum july 1891 [p32]
Coleoptera work done by [Charles] Gahan during the year ending 18 July 1891 [p33]
Summary of Atkinson Heteroptera Collection 6 Aug 1891 [p34]
Duplicates selected for Berlin Museum, Lisbon Museum 11 Jul 1891 from Hume, Gould, ASB, Tweed, Sclater, Shelley and Seebohm collections] [p35-6]
List of official entomological papers prepared for publication by W F Kirby 1889-1891 [p37]
Mr Pocock's estimate of specimens of myriopors catalogued by him Oct 1891 [p38]
Agreement with Gunther concerning loan of items in amber owned by Messrs Stantein & Becker on display at German exhibition, Earl's Court in the possession of Hon J Hurwitz Oct 1891, includes article by Richard Klebs on amber and annotated exhibition catalogue [p39]
Specimens of parrots listed by Salvadori [p40, p43]
Jansen's estimate of Bates collection 1892 [p41]
weight of whale skeleton (b. sibbaldii)1892 [p42]
Copy of estimates of space for exhibitions and for studying collections Feb 1892 sent to General Festing (Science Museum) [p44]
Duplicate specimens for Dundee Museum, selected by Prof d'Arcy Thompson [p45]
Schedule of prices for bookbinding by Eyre and Spottiswoode 1892 [p47]
Estimated costs of producing W Hampson's catalogue of lepidoptera heterocera [p48]
Specimens of pigeons catalogued by Salvadori [p49]
List of lenses in the Zoology Department March 1893 [p50]
List of staff and their responsibilities [Gerrard, Saunders, West, Atkinson, Horn, Chubb, Henry, Paul, Blomer, Trickett, Lee, Richards, Marshall, Wells, Ling] June 1893 [p51]
Stainton collection of Lepidiptera 7 June 1893 [p52]
List of 2nd Class attendants [Stuart, Henry, Woolley, Doggett, Leigh, Brand, Paul, Carver, Blomer, Savigar, Trickett, Lee, Macnaughton, Locke, Sant, Richards, Marshall, Wells, Ling, horn, Leigh, Wonnacott] 24 June 1893 [p53]
Memorandum for preserving marine animals attached to deep sea cables [Gunther] [p54]
Amount received for zoological catalogues sold in 1893 [p55]
Annotated printed instructions for collectors mammalia and additional manuscript notes using reptile instructions as a model 1893 [p56]
Antelopes wanted from Somali and East Africa 1893 [p57]
Directions for preparing Somali mammal skins Feb 1894 [p58]
List of duplicate registers received from Bloomsbury [British Museum] April 1894 [p59]
Report on the type catalogue of Walker's lepidoptera heterarea by W F Kirby 1 Nov 1894 [p60]
Instructions for preserving jelly-fish by R T Gunther 1894 [p61]
Seebohm's collection transferred in his name to Natural History museum by Howard Saunders, also Saunder's own collection 1894 [p62-63]
List of duplicate specimens of reptiles and baliachians in spirit for the Derby Museum, Nottingham Museum, Owen's College Manchester, Sheffield Museum 1895 [64-67 ]
Birds presented by J Abrahams 1895 [p68]
Birds Catalogued by Salvadori [p69] |