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Records of the Metropolitan Cattle Market, Islington, 1553-1964, including general administrative papers (inspector's report books, letter books, correspondence, report books, registers of drover's licences, bye-laws); posters; newspaper cuttings; photographs; annual reports of the Superintendent and Chief Veterinary Officer; legal papers; regulations regarding cattle driving; papers regarding the prevention and control of disease in cattle; papers relating to the City Meat Inspectors; accounts books; tenancy and rental agreements; rental ledgers; weighing and storage charge books; chill room charge books; lairage books and slaughtering charge books.

Manuscript volume titled 'On the Incubation of an Egg', c 1769, comprising notes and observations on the incubation of a hen's egg. Including references to the work of Marcello Malpighi (1628-1694), Albrecht von Haller (1708-1777), and John Hunter (1728-1793).

Scrap books of press-cuttings and other papers compiled by James Bearton Simonds, 1838-1896, including scrapbooks of press cuttings on the cattle plague, 1844-1869; scrapbook of press cuttings on cattle diseases and legislation, 1854-1865; scrapbook of press cuttings on veterinary and other matters, 1875-1879; scrapbook of press cuttings, letters and offprints on Variola Ovina, 1847-1863; scrapbook of press cuttings, letters and offprints on the veterinary profession, 1838-1896 and scrapbook of press cuttings, letters and offprints on pleuro-pneumonia, 1843-1869.

Copy of 'A letter to the most noble the Marquis of Titchfield [William Henry Cavendish-Scott-Bentinck, later 4th Duke of Portland], President of the Newark Agricultural Society, on the practability [sic] and importance of introducing the merino breed of sheep extensively, upon the forrest farms of Nottinghamshire, by Benjamin Thompson' [the dramatist, [1776] - 1816]. This letter, dated from Redhill Lodge near Northampton on 20 Jun 1808, was read at a meeting of the Society held at Newark, Nottinghamshire, on 5 Jul 1808. It is followed by an extract in the same hand from The Boston Gazzette and Lincoln Shire Advertiser of 21 Jan 1812, about Thompson and his breeding of Merino sheep.

Minutes of preliminary meetings of the Cattle Feeding Stuffs Central Advisory Committee.

London Cattle Food Trade Association records comprise minutes, accounts and a register of samples.