The 'World List': an alphabetical list of all the periodicals in all countries publishing the results of scientific research, with standard abbreviations for the titles of each. At this point, Peter Chalmers Mitchell was the Chair

Letter from William Luadale of the Geological Society to W J Broderip regarding soil specimens and copies of the Proceedings of the Geological Society

Letter from Prof M Guerin referring to the genus Phyllosama with the first number of Zoological Bulletin. He asks for Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London with a view to reviewing them in his Bulletin

Letter from Edmund Robert Daniell to Nicholas Aylward Vigors regarding the Royal Institution of Great Britain's publication of a journal devoted to science and the arts

Correspondence between Sir Arthur Landsborough Thomson and L Harrison Matthews regarding the Stamford Raffles Award, the Scientific Fellowship, and articles on 'Utilisation By Man', 'Edible Nests' and 'Palatability of Birds and Eggs'

Letter from Benjamin Clarke to Philip Lutley Sclater regarding publications of the Zoological Society of London

Letters from John Willis Clark to Philip Lutley Sclater regarding his subscription and a paper for the Zoological Society of London

Letter from William Henry Catlett to Philip Lutley Sclater regarding his subscription of the publications of the Zoological Society of London

Letter from Octavius Pickard Cambridge to Philip Lutley Sclater requesting to include a paper in the Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London

The Buckland family papers consist of William Buckland (Dean of Westminster, paleontologist and geologist); and his son Frank (a surgeon and zoologist) and his wife Mary (paleontologist, marine biologist and scientific illustrator)