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Correspondence between the Zoological Garden in Alipore and the Zoological Society of London regarding a collection for the Society being shipped from Colombo to Calcutta by Mr Osman Hill

Letters from William Yarrell regarding a heraldic question raised by Edward Turner Bennett, an unspecified dispute which had been considered at a meeting of the Council at Grosvenor Square, and a manuscript of Walcott's 'British Birds' asking Bennett to allow the dates 1784 and 1785 to stand since Walcott left Teignmouth for Chelsea in 1786 and was resident in Chelsea in 1787

Letter from Dr Wrathermad enclosing a more extended comment for his friend Mr Maude's letter reporting the burrowing of Ornithorguchus

Letter from G O Wooler saying that he had come up from Wolsingham to see his son Joseph, who had been in Bombay and had brought back a Black Dog (domesticated in Bombay although of the species Parish - wild dog). He considers that it is what Captain Williams calls a Dhole, which usually go in packs

Correspondence between Sir Arthur Smith Woodward and the Zoological Society of London regarding his resignation from the Council of the Society and his golden wedding anniversary

Letters from Henry Woodward to Philip Lutley Sclater regarding the career of Arthur Cates as a natural history draughtsman

Letter from H Woods who says he spoke to Wombwell (a dealer in Commercial Road) about the kangaroo. He would be satisfied with the female and would give an equivalent. He had his eye on a bear in the corner on the left of the elephants. He encloses a drawing of the head of the bear but the den was too dark to see it distinctly

Correspondence between Mrs M K Woodford and the Zoological Society of London regarding her offer to act as scrutineer for the ballot of the Council of the Society

Letters from William Edward de Winton to Philip Lutley Sclater regarding appointment as Acting Superintendent of the Gardens of the Zoological Society of London and Secretary to the Garden Committee, and his resignation in 1903

Letters from H Windhorn to Philip Lutley Sclater regarding the transport and death of the Queen's Giraffe