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

Observational notes on the rearing and behaviour of duikers and other animals (lions, antelopes and a pet cat) in Nigeria. Includes some correspondence. Also an extract from June Hopkins' journal describing a visit to Nairobi National Park Animal Orphanage

Correspondence with Sir Arthur Landsborough Thomson regarding the Secretaryship and the need for an Honorary Secretary, the replacement of the term Superintendent with Director, Scientific Meetings, Scientific Fellowship, the naming of Vice-Presidents of the Zoological Society of London, statements to the press, committees, the stocking of antelopes, a grant from the Nuffield Foundation to maintain a Nuffield Unit of Tropical Animal Ecology at Cambridge, a memorandum by Landsborough Thomson on the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds, the Society for the Promotion of Nature Reserves and the Council for Nature, a memorandum on a Fresh Proposal for Integration of Conservation Bodies, and the introduction of an oceanarium at London Zoo

Letter from C J Layton, of the London County Council Parks Department on the inspection of parks

Official printed copy of By- Laws of 1928 covering Acts from 1890-1923

Includes information on Chitwan and Rhinos