Letters from Carl Jacob Sundevall, Director of the Royal Museum Stockholm, to Philip Lutley Sclater regarding specimens found in the Museum such as Galapagos birds
Letters from P L Strachan of the Colonial Civil Service regarding his arrival in Sierra Leone, having been shipwrecked on 'the West India Islands', the deaths of the five African Woodcocks that he was bringing, the survival of a large scorpion (which may have accompanied the letter, a shipment of alligators and a mud turtle. Also comments that Bennett had not mentioned Mr Actin Governor ole and his brother having been admitted as Fellows
Correspondence between Julian Sorell Huxley and H Steinmetz of the Zoologischen Gartens zu Berlin
Letters from George O Starr to Philip Lutley Sclater regarding a pair of yaks sent by the Zoological Society of London for The Barnum and Bailey Greatest Show on Earth
Correspondece between Hubert R Stanton and the Zoological Society of London regarding the supply of animals and a dispute between Stanton and the Society. Also power of attorney from the Zoological Society of London to C S Webb
Correspondence between Oliver Stanley, Secretary of State for the Colonies, and the Zoological Society of London regarding a collection of fauna of East Africa
Letters from Henry Edward John Stanley, 3rd Baron of Alderly, to Philip Lutley Sclater regarding the wool of mouflon lambs and bulls from the Zoological Society of London
Correspondence between Edward Smith-Stanley, Earl of Derby, and David William Mitchell regarding a list of desirables from the sale catalogue of the aviary and menageries at Knowsley Hall
Letters from Edward Smith Stanley regarding matters concerning the government, problems of the Zoological Society of London, supply and exchange of animals, discussion of descriptions and well-being of animals and the hatching of eggs
A list and two letters from Edward Smith Stanley to Edward Ogilby