Correspondence regarding a request for birds and mammals from Africa for the Zoological Society of London

Correspondence with Lord Hurcomb of the International Council for Bird Preservation, British Section, regarding the question of a national bird

Correspondence with Julian Huxley regarding birds to be delivered to the Royal Society along with slides for a lecture he gave

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

Letters from Carl Jacob Sundevall, Director of the Royal Museum Stockholm, to Philip Lutley Sclater regarding specimens found in the Museum such as Galapagos birds

Letter from Frederick Talbot, Secretary of the South Staffordshire Industrial and Fine Arts Exhibition 1869, to Philip Lutley Sclater requesting assistance to show birds and fish during the exhibition

Letter from J G Vidjen of the Queensland Acclimatisation Society, to Philip Lutley Sclater regarding a shipment of birds for the Zoological Society of London

Letters from Alfred Russel Wallace to Philip Lutley Sclater regarding the purchase of a joint residential estate, extracts read at meetings of the Zoological Society of London, papers for the Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London and Natural Science, his publication on 'Monkeys - their structure, affinities and distribution', a shipment of birds for the Society, improvements to the Gardens of the Zoological Society of London, notes on the Umbrella Bird, his election as a Fellow, papers on marine mammals, opinions on theories by Darwin, Birds of Paradise, and a list of butterflies of Costa Rica

Letter from Edmond Warre to Philip Lutley Sclater regarding the donation of a bird to the Zoological Society of London

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