Copies of letters regarding the drainage system of the gardens of the Zoological Society into Regent's Canal, with accompanying map

Letters from Abraham Dee Bartlett to Philip Lutley Sclater regarding the doors to the new elephant house, animal food consumption, the female rhinoceros, the mounted specimen of a young gorilla, authorisation to sell Alice the elephant to Mr Barnum, and the theft of an owl

Letters from Gambier Bolton to Philip Lutley Sclater regarding alterations and additions to the gardens of the Zoological Society of London due to the decline in visitors

Papers on the proposed new Elephant House

List of costs of major building works undertaken by the Zoological Society of London in the last ten years

Report by G M Vevers on his visit to Carl Hagenbeck's Animal Park at Stellingen, with a drawing of Monkey Hill at Stellingen

Papers regarding the new Reptile House in the Gardens of the Zoological Society of London

Papers by the new Bird House Sub-Committee

Notes by the Secretary for the information of the committee on the new Reptile House heating systems

Agenda for a special meeting of the Garden Committee on the new Reptile House heating