Folder 1: Tender for the Restoration and Waterproofing of the Mappin Terraces - Conditions of Contract, Specifications and Bill of Quantities. Includes 4 drawings: 4105/1 - Goat Enclosures 'A' and 'B', Plans and Elevations; 4105/2 - Bear Enclosures '2'

Letters from Gerald Chetwynd Talbot, Private Secretary to the Governor General of India, to David William Mitchell regarding occurrences in the upper provinces of India which prevent the sending of Himalayan birds to England and the agent sent to Calcutta by the Zoological Society of London, a wild goat sent for presentation to Prince Albert, and a collection of hill birds for Prince Albert

Letter to F G Stevens of the Ministry of Agriculture from the Zoological Society of London regarding the acquisition of two British toggenburg milch goats and all-weather display board for the exhibit by the Ministry of Agriculture

Letters from Richard Owen regarding remarks on Bennett's edition of White's Natural History of Selborne, proofs of Bennett's paper with appreciation of his opinion on the value of Ousimile on Macr. Porryi, additions and alterations to notes on Hyrax, his omitted note of the salivary bags of the Armadillo from the written report of its dissection, MS of Clavagella, plans of the Monkey House and whether it is heated by hot air or steam, arrangements at the Garden to facilitate repetition and extension of experiments by Mr Hunter in 1725/6/7 to determine the relations subsisting between Wolf, Jackall and Dog, examination of 'your little feli-viverrine quadruped, bones of Touraco and drawings of Terebratala for the Zoological Society of London, East India Goats for sale by Mr Evans Riadone, an introduction to Mr Meade, a senior student at St Bartholomew's and a comparative anatomist and articulator of skeletons who wished to become a candidate for the College of Surgeons curatorship, and a request for Bennett to check a reference to 'Zoologie de la Caquille'

Letters from Alexander Miller of the Zoological Gardens regarding a Chinese Pheasant which escaped and had been running in Park Street, Camden Town, an escape from the Dove House, the removal of an oak fence on the southern boundary, the health of a Rhinoceros, the Society's Cashmere Goat, his visit to City Road Basin, the purchase of a Chimpanzee, a visit by the Queen to the Gardens, a stillborn Rhesus Monkey, dimensions of the back of a new den for the Elephant and Rhinoceros, the cost of laying the floor of the Elephant and Rhinoceros House, the death of a Chimpanzee and the return of John Woodbridge with Cranes and Leopards

Letter from Leonard Howard Loyd Irby to Philip Lutley Sclater regarding the bill for a shipment of goats

Letters from Hussey, H C to Philip Lutley Sclater regarding the feeding of goats to the python at the Zoological Society of London

Notes on Mammals of Tibet, 1842; New genus of Birds, 1845; Catalogue of Birds of Nepal, 1847; Description of Wild Ass and Wolf of Tibet, 1846; Wild Sheep in Himalayas, 1831; Tame Sheep and goats in Himalayas and Tibet, 1847; Articles in Journal of Asiatic Society of Bengal, 1847

Letter from Susan J Gore to Reginald Innes Pocock regarding the feeding of live goats to the snakes at the Gardens of the Zoological Society of London

Correspondence with Geoffrey Marr Vevers regarding a suggestion for a seat at the North Gate where Fellows can sit, a complaint about the size of the Cuckoo cage, a complaint about canaries sharing a cage with a blackbird, a complaint about boys climbing over the fence on the Canal Bank, a complaint about a Panda being on view directly as it arrived, a complaint about a man cutting the hair of a girl, and damage to a dress by a goat in the Children's Zoo