Letters from Sir Clement Lloyd Hill to Philip Lutley Sclater regarding the way in which animals and birds were shot down in new countries, and draft reply concerning papers put out by the Zoological Society of London for the protection of birds
Letters from William Henry Hudson to Philip Lutley Sclater regarding cuckoos, shipments of birds to the Smithsonian, Woodpeckers in Argentina, Blackbirds and other birds
Letters from J L Cox regarding the keeping of birds in the Gardens of the Zoological Society of London and a donation of animals from a friend for the Society
Letters from Thomas Henry Huxley to Philip Lutley Sclater asking about available birds for dissection, meetings of the Council of the Zoological Society of London, proofs and woodcuts for a paper, specimens of birds and the Marine Biological Association
Correspondence regarding a request for birds and mammals from Africa for the Zoological Society of London
Correspondence with Lord Hurcomb of the International Council for Bird Preservation, British Section, regarding the question of a national bird
Correspondence regarding W J C Frost being commissioned by the Council of the Zoological Society of London to collect Birds of Paradise and Crowned Pigeons for London Zoo
Letters from Sir Richard Owen to Philip Lutley Sclater on subjects such as plates of the Dodo, papers on bird bones, notes on the dissection of a penguin, cetacean drawings, chambered shells, drawings of birds from Madras, photographs of harpagornis and his papers on diornis
Letters from Clements Robert Markham, Secretary of the Royal Geographical Society, to Philip Lutley Sclater regarding permission for his cousin to take photographs in the gardens of the Zoological Society of London, a request to review Eastern Persia for the Geographical Magazine, Sclater's membership of the Geographical Society, a representation to the government with a view to the exploration of the North Pole region, the Spitsbergen bird, and an order for his wife and himself to see their dogs at the gardens