Includes purchase of mountain gorillas from Charles Cordier, and expense files

Correspondence between Bill Harwood and Geoffrey Marr Vevers regarding a shipment of animals, including a baby Gorilla, from Lagos to the Zoological Society of London

Correspondence between Spanish United Maritime and Commercial Overseas Co. Ltd and Geoffrey Marr Vevers regarding a young male Gorilla named Johnnie in Bata which the Zoological Society of London wished to acquire

Correspondence between the University Museum in Oxford and Geoffrey Marr Vevers regarding drawings by Mrs Purves, and records of a baby Gorilla from the Zoological Society of London which went to the Department of Human Anatomy, University Museum, Oxford

Letter from William Chapman Atkinson to Philip Lutley Sclater regarding his talk about live gorillas in Europe

Letters from Abraham Dee Bartlett to Philip Lutley Sclater regarding the doors to the new elephant house, animal food consumption, the female rhinoceros, the mounted specimen of a young gorilla, authorisation to sell Alice the elephant to Mr Barnum, and the theft of an owl

Letters from Frederic Brine to Philip Lutley Sclater regarding the living conditions of a gorilla, a sacred white elephant which was said to have been in Siam but which he refuted, and the height and weight of Jumbo and Jenny

Letter from Wynfrid Laurence Henry Duckworth to Philip Lutley Sclater regarding his possible purchase of a gorilla which had arrived in London

Letter from Edward Bourke Ellis to Philip Lutley Sclater offering to bring a few gorillas to England on his return from Africa

Letters from John Edward Grey of the British Museum to Philip Lutley Sclater regarding the key to the gardens of the Zoological Society of London, a paper on tortoises, specimens of a monkey and lemur to be exhibited at a meeting, the death of a gorilla, meetings of the Council, and reports of the Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London