Letters from Sir Richard Owen to Philip Lutley Sclater on subjects such as plates of the Dodo, papers on bird bones, notes on the dissection of a penguin, cetacean drawings, chambered shells, drawings of birds from Madras, photographs of harpagornis and his papers on diornis
Letters from J L Cox regarding the keeping of birds in the Gardens of the Zoological Society of London and a donation of animals from a friend for the Society
Letters from Edmund Ruppell, a German citizen from Frankfort, giving appreciation for receipt of his diploma as a foreign member of the Zoological Society of London, Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, comments on his discoveries such as a new variety of Gasteropod, a list of mammals and birds 'our museum wishes to get from England' receipt of the 1934 Proceedings, the first volume of museum catalogue, and his wish to complete the exchange
Letter from the Secretary of the United Services Museum, accompanying two specimens of birds killed in Mexico and of a Scoter killed at Southampton. The letter asks the Zoological Society of London to inspect and return them
Correspondence regarding W J C Frost being commissioned by the Council of the Zoological Society of London to collect Birds of Paradise and Crowned Pigeons for London Zoo