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 Charles Telfaire to Nicholas Aylward Vigors regarding his research on the Dodo, a tortoise from the Seychelles, tortoises of the Amirante Islands and Mombasa, and a Chamaeleon from the north of Madagascar to be presented 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
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 R W Roulston to Philip Lutley Sclater regarding antelopes and gorillas in south west Africa
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
Letters from Arnold Jerome Matthews to Philip Lutley Sclater regarding an expedition to the Gabon for the purpose of procuring some young living specimens of the gorilla, then available to purchase by the Zoological Society of London
Letter from W B Legros to David William Mitchell regarding a present sent by the Zoological Society to Colonel Bonford and an assurance that Colonel Bonford has in his care the animals gifted by the late Viceroy of Egypt to the Zoological Society of London. Also thanks from Mr Murray for a copy of 'Views'
Correspondence regarding a notice in the Army Medical Department Bulletin requesting living specimens from Africa for the Zoological Society of London