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

Correspondence between J Ray and George Soper Cansdale regarding an offer of a Leopard cub to the Zoological Society of London

Letter regarding the import of two Reticulated Pythons by Robert Jackson Ltd

Correspondence between Vought, Fullbrook and Co and George Soper Cansdale regarding the offer of a Rhinoceros to the Zoological Society of London

Letter from Captain J G Green to offer a specimen of a barn door hen which had developed cock plumage to the Zoological Society of London

Letter from Hawthorne saying he will call at the Zoological Society of London and make arrangements about the Gazellus lysery

Letter from John Humphrys regarding the identification of shells he had though of as Indian origin, and a discussion about his collection

Letters from P L Strachan of the Colonial Civil Service regarding his arrival in Sierra Leone, having been shipwrecked on 'the West India Islands', the deaths of the five African Woodcocks that he was bringing, the survival of a large scorpion (which may have accompanied the letter, a shipment of alligators and a mud turtle. Also comments that Bennett had not mentioned Mr Actin Governor ole and his brother having been admitted as Fellows

Letters from J M Davies regarding the shipment of animals to the Zoological Society of London

Letters from Rajendra Mullick to David William Mitchell giving thanks for a shipment of birds shipped from the Zoological Society of London and reports on zoology, and birds and animals onboard the Prince of Wales for the Zoological Society of London