Correspondence between United States Lines and Geoffrey Marr Vevers regarding the transport of animals and museum specimens to Philadelphia on the Russell R. Jones

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

Correspondence between San Diego Zoo and Geoffrey Marr Vevers regarding shipments of animals from San Diego Zoo to the Zoological Society of London, including Rosy Boas, a California King Snake, Pacific Rattlesnakes, a Black Cobra, Adders, Slow Worms, Emus and a request from the Zoological Society of London for Sea Lions, also the transport of Hedgehogs and Wallabies from the Zoological Society of London to San Diego Zoo

Correspondence with Rio Grande Park Zoo regarding the acquisition of rare animals, such as Asiatic Rhinos

List of American zoos by A Lindsay; Report of a visit to New York and Chicago (1936); 'Notes on visits to some foreign zoos, 1934 and 1935' by Huxley (covering New York Bronx, Philadelphia, Washington, Paris Vincennes, Hamburg, Berlin, Munich Hellabrun, & Frankfurt); extract from report on the British Colonial Exhibit, World's Fair, New York, 1939; Report on visit to Austria and Germany by D Seth Smith (c1937); Report on a visit to the Zoological Gardens at Antwerp, Rotterdam and Amsterdam (1935); Report on a visit to France (1938); letter from Chalmers Mitchell to the Directors of Zoological Gardens in Germany, introducing Huxley, 1935; handwritten notes on zoos; notebook; 'La Reproduction des Animaux Sauvages en Captivite' by A Urbain; Report on visit to Brookfield Zoo (1940); guide to Internationalen Jagdaustellung, Berlin, 1937.

Edward George Boulenger spent three weeks in America where he visited and studied the aquaria, zoological parks and museums in New York and Chicago

Correspondence between Portland Zoological Park and Geoffrey Marr Vevers, and newspaper cuttings, regarding an exchange of reptiles, wallabies and hedgehogs

Correspondence with Philadelphia Zoo regarding the transport of snakes and the breeding of Tarsiers

Correspondence with Philadelphia Zoological Gardens regarding the War