Letter from John Yelland, apologising for not being able to bring back any small Hawaiian birds for the Zoological Society of London

Letters from Clements Robert Markham, Secretary of the Royal Geographical Society, to Philip Lutley Sclater regarding permission for his cousin to take photographs in the gardens of the Zoological Society of London, a request to review Eastern Persia for the Geographical Magazine, Sclater's membership of the Geographical Society, a representation to the government with a view to the exploration of the North Pole region, the Spitsbergen bird, and an order for his wife and himself to see their dogs at the gardens

Letters from Sir Richard Owen to Philip Lutley Sclater on subjects such as plates of the Dodo, papers on bird bones, notes on the dissection of a penguin, cetacean drawings, chambered shells, drawings of birds from Madras, photographs of harpagornis and his papers on diornis

Letter from William Henry Hudson to Peter Chalmers Mitchell enclosing a copy of Birds of La Plata for the Library of the Zoological Society of London

Memorandum by the Secretary regarding the care of animals (mammals, birds, reptiles, fishes, etc) in transport

Memorandum by the Secretary on the care of animals (mammals, birds, reptiles, fishes, etc) in transport

David Seth Smith attended, as delegate of the Zoological Society and the Society for the Preservation of the Fauna of the Empire, the Meeting of the European Continental Section of the International Committee for Bird Preservation held in Vienna

Correspondence regarding W J C Frost being commissioned by the Council of the Zoological Society of London to collect Birds of Paradise and Crowned Pigeons for London Zoo

Letter from Major-General Sir John Bennett Hearsey to David William Mitchell regarding pheasants and other rare birds for the Zoological Society of London

Letter from N Melton to David William Mitchell regarding a shipment of crown birds, a monkey and a scotchman bird for the Zoological Society of London