Voyage to and from China, in H C Ship Berwickshire, in 1832 and 1833

Descriptions of birds seen

23 journal volumes of approx 180 pages each. 5 vols of photographs illustrating the text

Correspondence between Sir Arthur Landsborough Thomson and L Harrison Matthews regarding meetings of the Selection Committee, the Annual Report, meetings of the Finance Committee, meetings of the Publications Committee, statement of the duties of Honorary Officers, the arrangement of Committees, abstracts in the Ibis, the Zoological Record, the Chairman of the Pink Elephants, the Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, Scientific Meetings, the British Guiana expedition, meetings of the Prosectorial Committee, the United Workers' Association, Professional Fellows, the Medical Research Council, the Centenary celebration of Madras Zoo, allegations against staff, Gerbils of the genus Meriones, and cases of controlling inter-current tuberculosis among colonies of monkeys

Correspondence and papers regarding employees of the Zoological Society of London not receiving profit from their connection with the Society, proposed expeditions, and contracts and agreements

Correspondence between G Fitzgerald-Lee and George Soper Cansdale regarding the Hughes Expedition and an offer to sell a female African Pygmy Hippopotamus to the Zoological Society of London

Correspondence between Anthony Smith and George Soper Cansdale regarding The Oxford University Expedition to Persia

Letters from John Gould regarding a Zebra that was exhibiting signs of tetanus, the request of a salary of £50 for the new arrangement by the Museum Committee, an expedition to collect specimens for the Zoological Society of London and several gifts to the Society

Letters from Daniel Sharpe regarding his voyage to Lisbon and the Zoological Society of London

Copy of a letter from Earl Charles John Canning to Colonel Phipps regarding birds in Calcutta and an expedition by an agent of the Zoological Society of London