Letter from the Conservator of Forests in Assam to the Divisional Forest Officer, Sibsagar Division regarding arrangements for catching a Rhino to be dispatched to the Zoological Gardens in Alipore on behalf of the Zoological Society of London

Correspondence between Ellerman & Bucknall Steamship Co. Ltd and Geoffrey Marr Vevers regarding a shipment of birds, leopards and sundries from Calcutta to Colombo

Correspondence between J J Johnson and Geoffrey Marr Vevers regarding the offer of a Mongoose and a Himalayan Bear Cub called Vicky to the Zoological Society of London

Correspondence between Mr and Mrs Gunn and George Soper Cansdale, and photograph, regarding a 16 month old Cheetah from Saudi Arabia

Correspondence regarding the shipment of two Shetland Ponies from the Zoological Society of London to the Tel-Aviv Zoological Garden Society, a shipment of animals from the Zoological Society of Philadelphia, and the transport of a pair of Wallabies

Correspondence American Express and Geoffrey Marr Vevers regarding animals being shipped to the Zoological Society of London, including mink on board the SS Corrales, a white owl on SS Empire McCullum, a collection of animals aboard the SS Isipingo, a sloth bear cub from Bombay on SS Mantola, five monkeys on SS Isipingo, a bear cub on SS Mantola, animals on SS Deido, kangaroos on SS Rivercrest, animals aboard SS Tarkwa, caotimundis and capybara on SS Arakaka, a leopard on SS Congonia, a bandicoot on SS Brittanic, a shipment on SS Freetown, an ocelot and owl on Arakaka

Correspondence between Mr Fish, Librarian of the Zoological Society of London, and the Duke of Edinburgh's Royal Regiment and the India Office Library and Records regarding research into Henry Jones

Files relating to a trip Thompson took to Calcutta to bring back animals. Includes finances, bills and a brief diary.

Bound volume contains payments by the Zoological Society of London to James Thompson for disbursement of cash in connection with his mission to India, with a bundle of receipts

Correspondence with Professor K Lorenz regarding a grey lag, a jackdaw and a mallard to be taken to Lime Grove, a paper on the ethology of the European Bullfinch by Dr Jurgen Nicolai, and a request for bullfinches from Calcutta