Letters from the United Planters Association of Southern India to Philip Lutley Sclater regarding attempts to introduce appropriate varieties of Ladybirds from Australia for the extermination of certain scale pests

Memos and correspondence concerning the visits of VIPs to ZSL. Includes The Queen, Emperor of Japan, Duke of Edinburgh, Queen of Nepal, Princess Anne, etc

Papers relating to a visit by the Emperor of Japan to the Zoological Society of London

Correspondence between Geoff Williams and Geoffrey Marr Vevers regarding the offer to collect snakes in India for the Zoological Society of London

Letter from G O Wooler saying that he had come up from Wolsingham to see his son Joseph, who had been in Bombay and had brought back a Black Dog (domesticated in Bombay although of the species Parish - wild dog). He considers that it is what Captain Williams calls a Dhole, which usually go in packs

Correspondence between the Zoological Garden in Alipore and the Zoological Society of London regarding a collection for the Society being shipped from Colombo to Calcutta by Mr Osman Hill

Correspondence between the Zoological Garden in Alipore and Geoffrey Marr Vevers regarding specimens collected by Mr Frost, and a request for Chimpanzees and a Pigmy Hippopotamus

Correspondence with Geoffrey Marr Vevers regarding the Zoological Gardens in Alipore, Calcutta, offering temporary housing to animals being sent to the Zoological Society of London, including a pair of panther cubs

Zoology Nepal I, 1824-1827; Ornithology & Mammalogy, Valley of Nepal II, 1824-1827. Note by Hodgson: "Crude beginnings - useless"

Correspondence with S T Hussain and Sons, Livestock Dealers in Calcutta, regarding the sale of animals to the Zoological Society of London