Correspondence between J Carberry and Geoffrey Marr Vevers regarding Garbo the Bush Pig and other animals sent from Kenya to the Zoological Society of London

Correspondence between the Colonial Office in London and Geoffrey Marr Vevers regarding air passage for collectors travelling to Africa on behalf of the Zoological Society of London

Correspondence between the Ministry of Civil Aviation and Geoffrey Marr Vevers regarding the importation by air of consignments of reptiles and insects from East Africa

Notices to shippers for the South and East African, Mauritius, Lobito and Port Sudan Outward Freight Conferences

Contains a mention of David Attenborough's Zoo Quest to Madagascar

Correspondence between Stanley Smyth Flower and Patrick Alfred Buxton of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine requesting information on poisonous snakes of Egypt, Libya and the Barbary States

Correspondence between Sir Arthur Landsborough Thomson and L Harrison Matthews regarding applications for the appointment as Veterinary Pathologist at the Zoological Society of London, Scientific Meetings, articles on Gambia, Gophers, the selection of recipients of the John Scott Medal Award, and the sequence of families in the systematic part of the Aves Zoo

Correspondence between Sir Arthur Landsborough Thomson and L Harrison Matthews regarding Scientific Meetings, meetings of the Publications Committee, David Attenborough's talk again his Madagascar trip, draft minutes, and candidates for the Scientific Fellowship