Articles of Agreement and correspondence between John Warwick with the Zoological Society of London and the Earl of Derby regarding a voyage to Egypt and Nubia to procure live animals and birds for the Zoological Society of Lonon
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 Oliver Stanley, Secretary of State for the Colonies, and the Zoological Society of London regarding a collection of fauna of East Africa
Letter from George Ernest Shelley to Philip Lutley Sclater regarding the H H Johnston collection from the Cameroon swamps
Letters from Charles Augustus Murray to David William Mitchell regarding the shipment of animals to the the Gardens of the Zoological Society of London from Egypt, with receipts
Letter from J Hargreave to Philip Lutley Sclater regarding the offer for sale of a chimpanzee monkey from West Africa, including a list of tricks he could perform
Letters from Sir Edward Gray to Philip Lutley Sclater regarding an exchange of animals with the Zoological Society of London, transporting eland from South Africa, and the offer of a hybrid between a British Pintail and a Wigeon
Letter from J Deal regarding his visit to the Gardens of the Zoological Society of London in August. He did not see species of guinea fowl he had brought from upper Gambia so offers a pair to the Zoological Society of London
Letter from George Atkins to Philip Lutley Sclater regarding an animal that was found in Sierra Leone and exhibited at the Sierra Leone Exhibition
Letter from Leopold Charles Maurice Stennett to Philip Lutley Sclater offering to get anything he wished during his trip to South Africa, and thanking him for a recent zoo ticket