Letter from Edward Burton to say that he has discovered changes to a specimen on which he had prepared a draft paper. He suggests change of scientific name accordingly

Letter from R Leyland referring to the publication of Curtis and Stevens on British Insects. He says he may be able to send some insects not very common in the south. Also includes a list of genera 'which would be acceptable here'

Letters from Sir Lawrence Alma Tadema regarding an unmounted lion's skin and a letter in support of an artist being allowed to study in the Zoological Gardens

Letters from Phineas Taylor Barnum to Philip Lutley Sclater regarding the purchase and transfer of Alice the elephant. Also a letter regarding the purchase of specimens for Barnum's Zoological Museum

Letters from Arthur Gardiner Butler to Philip Lutley Sclater regarding attendance at committee meetings and illustrations for publications

Letters from Johann Ludwig Gerhard Krefft of the Australian Museum in Sydney, to Philip Lutley Sclater

Letter from William Henry Sykes to Philip Lutley Sclater regarding the Indian Museum

List of specimens held

Returns of specimens in the Museum of the Zoological Society of London, including dried specimens of fish and reptiles, mounted mammalia, mounted birds, skulls, skeletons and small collections

Report of a meeting between the Trustees of the British Museum and the representatives of the Museum Conference of Naturalists, with correspondence, a memorandum on the problem of combining the administrative and technical or scientific direction of National Museums with special reference to the British Museum (Natural History) and papers from meetings