Correspondence between Union Castle Mail Steamship Co. Ltd and Geoffrey Marr Vevers regarding a shipment of Snakes, Chameleons, Birds, Penguins and Crane on board the vessel Umtali from Cape Town

Correspondence between Taylor, Sons and Humbert and Clarence Bartlett regarding the feeding of pythons and other snakes upon live animals

Letters from Albert Carl Ludwig Gotthilf Gunter to Philip Lutley Sclater regarding his papers for the Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, Dr Gray's paper on Chilean Deer, Krefft's, discovery of the Ceratodus Fosteri, plates of Swinhoe's snakes, salmonoids, heterodon dorbignyi and euophrys modestus

Paper by Joan Procter listing safety regulations for the Reptile House at the Zoological Society of London, including unpacking, helpers, snake-bites, entering cages, duty and visitors

Paper by Burgess Barnett on precautions against snake bites in the Reptile House

Black and white and colour photographs, including images of herpetofauna (snakes, turtles and frogs) in captivity and in the wild, as well as views of habitats in Hong Kong

Unmounted colour transparencies of captive snakes

Black and white negatives and accompanying proof sheet of a macaque/Celebes ape (Macaca nigra) and baby in Hong Kong Zoological and Botanical Gardens, dated 1 January 1972; colour negatives of a young jaguar with J D Romer, and of snakes (Rhabdophis subminiatus) in captivity, probably in Hong Kong, dated February to March 1980