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

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

Report by William Yarrell and Mitchell about purchase of greyhounds from Abbas Pasha

Letters from Sir Frederick William Adolphus Bruce to David William Mitchell regarding the gift of a female hippopotamus from Egypt for the Zoological Society of London

Memorandum on Dr V Van Straelen's 25th Anniversary as President of the Institut Des Parcs Nationaux Du Congo Belge

Letter from Sibyl Flower to Joan Procter regarding her husband being in the Sudan and a box of tortoises to be brought to England

Letters from C S Webb to Alastair Morrison regarding animals from British Cameroon for the Zoological Society of London, including Sunbirds and a gorilla

Letter to G Iles of Belle Vue Zoo in Manchester regarding J Seago leaving for East Africa to collect live animals

Letter to the Minister of the Ethiopian Legation regarding help to acquire a female Gelada Baboon from Abyssinia

Correspondence regarding the importation of wild animals and birds from Abyssinia including Gelada Baboons and Royal Starlings