Edward George Boulenger spent three weeks in America where he visited and studied the aquaria, zoological parks and museums in New York and Chicago

Letters from W A Conklin of the Department of Public Parks in New York, to Philip Lutley Sclater regarding the birth of an elephant at a circus in Philadelphia

Correspondence between the Avicultural Society and George Soper Cansdale regarding an invitation for Cansdale and his wife to attended the nineteenth Meeting and Dinner of the British Aviculturists' Club, and ten Blue Masked Lovebirds that had arrived from the San Diego Zoo

Correspondence between J Aistrop and George Soper Cansdale regarding an offer to bring a pair of Scarlet Ibis from America to the Zoological Society of London

Correspondence regarding the shipment of two Shetland Ponies from the Zoological Society of London to the Tel-Aviv Zoological Garden Society, a shipment of animals from the Zoological Society of Philadelphia, and the transport of a pair of Wallabies

Correspondence between Airlines and Geoffrey Marr Vevers regarding the shipment of a box of snakes to the Zoological Society of London, stuffed specimens of panda from Echwan Universities, and information about a regular air cargo service between London and the United States of America

Letters from Nellie Louise Condon regarding the address of Methuen and Co publishers, and the Reptile Study Society of America

Draft notes by Julian Huxley on visits to the Zoological Gardens at New York (Bronx Park), Philadelphia, Washington DC, Paris (Vincennes), Hamburg, Berlin, Munich (Hellabrunn) and Frankfort, also the Aquarium at Chicago

Letters from Arthur E Brown of the Zoological Society of Philadelphia, to Philip Lutley Sclater regarding the birth of an African elephant

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