Colour negatives taken in the Hong Kong Zoological and Botanical Gardens, of the mammal house, dated November 1974; lemurs, marmosets, a Celebes ape and an agouti, dated 1975; orangutans, dated May 1978; a hand-reared squirrel monkey and other mammals, dated 25 September 1975

Mounted colour slides mainly of snake specimens, but also including images of the Hong Kong Zoological and Botanical Gardens and local landscape, along with some personal images

Correspondence between Copenhagen Zoo and George Soper Cansdale regarding a request for a dozen Ruffs for the Zoological Society of London, the Zoo Directors' Congress, and a consignment of mammals, birds and reptiles from Australia

Correspondence between Copenhagen Zoo and Geoffrey Marr Vevers regarding a visit to London and Whipsnade Zoos, with arrangements regarding the transfer of animals

Correspondence between Alan Francis Brooke and Officers of the Zoological Society of London regarding his recent illness, kind enquiries from the Council of the Zoological Society of London, and Dr Richard Clarke of Bristol Zoo

Letters from J L Cox regarding the keeping of birds in the Gardens of the Zoological Society of London and a donation of animals from a friend for the Society

Letter from George Mifflin Dallas to Philip Lutley Sclater regarding the proposal for a Zoological and Botanical garden in Central Park, New York

Letter from J Deal regarding his visit to the Gardens of the Zoological Society of London in August. He did not see species of guinea fowl he had brought from upper Gambia so offers a pair to the Zoological Society of London

Letter from Charles Dickens to Philip Lutley Sclater sending thanks for the ticket for the gardens of the Zoological Society of London

Letters from Elizabeth Matilda Dickens to Philip Lutley Sclater regarding tickets for the gardens of the Zoological Society of London