Correspondence between John Houston, David William Mitchell and the South Australian Banking Company regarding the sale of birds and a request by Prince Albert to bring a Platypus, Lyre Tailed Pheasant and Black Mackaw to the Zoological Society of London

Letters from Herbrand Arthur Russell to Philip Lutley Sclater regarding the purchase of animals, his election as member of the council of the Zoological Society, his attendance at meetings and the appointment of a veterinary surgeon at the Zoological Society

Correspondence between Terry Jones and George Soper Cansdale regarding prices for animals from Leckford Estate Limited in Stockbridge, Hampshire

Correspondence between Otto Wollenweber and George Soper Cansdale regarding the sale of animals to the Zoological Society of London

Correspondence between Dierenpark Wassenaar and George Soper Cansdale regarding the sale of Shoebill Storks to the Zoological Society of London

Letter regarding the purchase of birds for the Zoological Society of London

Correspondence between S R Cleland-Scott and Geoffrey Marr Vevers regarding the purchase and shipping of a lion from Kenya to the Zoological Society of London called The Last Straw, and a male Leopard called Alexander

Correspondence between Rafiq Khan and Geoffrey Marr Vevers regarding the sale of Zoological specimens to the Zoological Society of London, with a price list

Correspondence between Leslie Martin Flewin and Geoffrey Marr Vevers regarding the sale and surplus of animals from German zoological collections, and animals and birds on loan from Hagenbeck's Tierpark in Hamburg

Correspondence between Geoffrey Marr Vevers and Kathleen Goddard, and letter of introduction from David Seth-Smith, regarding the sale of a budgerigar