Letters from R W Roulston to Philip Lutley Sclater regarding antelopes and gorillas in south west Africa

Letter from Edward Roche to Philip Lutley Sclater regarding birds and other animals being delivered, such as black necked swans, pheasants and antelope

Report on elephant enclosures, temperatures in various houses such as antelope and cattle sheds, possible overcrowding in bears' enclosures, inmates of cattle and deer sheds, the health of otters and coypus, numbers in the bird house and aviaries, bird house temperatures and the Three Island Pond

Letters concerning the Symposium held on 11-12 June 1987; correspondence with William Timym about his bronze Oryx model

Maps of Oman

Correspondence with Sir Arthur Landsborough Thomson regarding the Secretaryship and the need for an Honorary Secretary, the replacement of the term Superintendent with Director, Scientific Meetings, Scientific Fellowship, the naming of Vice-Presidents of the Zoological Society of London, statements to the press, committees, the stocking of antelopes, a grant from the Nuffield Foundation to maintain a Nuffield Unit of Tropical Animal Ecology at Cambridge, a memorandum by Landsborough Thomson on the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds, the Society for the Promotion of Nature Reserves and the Council for Nature, a memorandum on a Fresh Proposal for Integration of Conservation Bodies, and the introduction of an oceanarium at London Zoo

Correspondence between A R Jones and Geoffrey Marr Vevers regarding an offer of Duiker to the Zoological Society of London

Correspondence between D Horwood and Geoffrey Marr Vevers regarding obtaining permission for the the shipment of animals to the Zoological Society of London, including Black Duiker, Maxwell's Duiker, Bay Duiker, Treebear and Touraco

Correspondence with Oliver Graham Jones regarding the order of a breeding pair of Kudu, the new Antelope accommodation and the African Ecology Project

Observational notes on the rearing and behaviour of duikers and other animals (lions, antelopes and a pet cat) in Nigeria. Includes some correspondence. Also an extract from June Hopkins' journal describing a visit to Nairobi National Park Animal Orphanage