Minutes of the Abyssinian Committee and papers connected to the Abyssinian Expedition

Letter from John Alger to Philip Lutley Sclater ahead of his visit to Australia

Letter from Leopold Charles Maurice Stennett to Philip Lutley Sclater offering to get anything he wished during his trip to South Africa, and thanking him for a recent zoo ticket

Letter regarding an expedition to collect birds for the Zoological Society of London

Letter from William Spiers Bruce to Philip Lutley Sclater regarding his intention of visiting the Antarctic and requesting the support of the learned societies, and an offer to secure Antarctic fauna for the Zoological Society of London

Letter from John Samuel Budget to Peter Chalmers Mitchell requesting a grant from the Zoological Society of London towards the expenses of his expedition to Nigeria

Letters from John Samuel Budgett to Philip Lutley Sclater regarding his research on okapis and expeditions to study polypterus

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

Letters from Hugh Childers to Philip Lutley Sclater regarding expeditions by the Admiralty to observe the transit of venus

Letter from Paul Corin to Philip Lutley Sclater regarding an expedition by Captain Zozilla