Correspondence between James Thompson, Head Keeper at London Zoo, and David William Mitchell regarding the expense to carry out the experiment of rearing mammals and birds in the Hill Country for transmission to Enland, and the transmission of a collection of Himalayan pheasants to the Zoological Society of London
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
Letter from Frederick Dixon to Philip Lutley Sclater regarding a wild cat sent to the Zoological Society of London by Brigadier General Sir Herbert Kitchener
Letter from Leonard Howard Loyd Irby to Philip Lutley Sclater regarding the bill for a shipment of goats
Letters from H Windhorn to Philip Lutley Sclater regarding the transport and death of the Queen's Giraffe
Letters from Edward Pierson Ramsay, Curator of the Australian Museum, to Philip Lutley Sclater regarding the transportation of a ceratodus to the Zoological Society of London
Letter from W H Martin to the Zoological Society of London regarding the transportation of livestock
Letter from the Zoological Society of London to Joao de Freitas Martins regarding his offer to supervise the shipping of consignments of Madeira fish to the Aquarium
Letter from Carl Hagenbeck to Peter Chalmers Mitchell regarding his shipment of a buffalo to the Zoological Society of London
Letter from William Tyler Hamilton saying the elephant had arrived and appeared least worse for it. It was a valuable addition to the collection. They are likely to lost the last fine male as it was showing signs of enlargement of the epiglottis which proved fatal in the female