Workmen's Compensation Insurance Policy from Commercial Union Assurance Company Limited for Dr. A.S. Young, working in Muguga, Kenya

Letters from P L Strachan of the Colonial Civil Service regarding his arrival in Sierra Leone, having been shipwrecked on 'the West India Islands', the deaths of the five African Woodcocks that he was bringing, the survival of a large scorpion (which may have accompanied the letter, a shipment of alligators and a mud turtle. Also comments that Bennett had not mentioned Mr Actin Governor ole and his brother having been admitted as Fellows

Letters from Sir Frederick William Adolphus Bruce to David William Mitchell regarding the gift of a female hippopotamus from Egypt for the Zoological Society of London

Letter from W B Legros to David William Mitchell regarding a present sent by the Zoological Society to Colonel Bonford and an assurance that Colonel Bonford has in his care the animals gifted by the late Viceroy of Egypt to the Zoological Society of London. Also thanks from Mr Murray for a copy of 'Views'

Letters from Arnold Jerome Matthews to Philip Lutley Sclater regarding an expedition to the Gabon for the purpose of procuring some young living specimens of the gorilla, then available to purchase by the Zoological Society of London

Letter from A Verey & Co. to Philip Lutley Sclater regarding a young gorilla and chimpanzee from Africa

Letter to Dr L G Goodwin of the Nuffield Institute of Comparative Medicine, regarding applications for the Scientific Fellowship, an application before the MRC, and his report on his visit to the Serengeti

Bound with: List of Unfigured Species of Birds

Correspondence between W H Hale and George Soper Cansdale regarding the export of animals from Kenya and lists of approved Zoos

Correspondence between C Bretell and Geoffrey Marr Vevers regarding the offer to bring live animals from Kenya to the Zoological Society of London