Notes by Julian Huxley on visits to the Zoological Gardens at New York (Bronx Park), Philadelphia, Washington DC, Paris (Vincennes), Hamburg, Berlin, Munich (Hellabrunn) and Frankfort, also the Aquarium at Chicago
Letters from Thomas Bell regarding his apologies that he will be unable to meet Edward Turner Bennett at the Gardens of the Zoological Society of London, proposed changes to the Gardens of the Society, a recommendation for William Cranley to work in the museum and an invitation to dinner
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 a Fellow to Nicholas Aylward Vigors regarding the conduct of a group of children from a charity school during a visit to the gardens of the Zoological Society of London
Letter from Edward Greenaway to Nicholas Aylward Vigors regarding the opening of the gardens of the Zoological Society of London on Good Friday when other exhibitions in London were closed
Letter from William Pryor to Nicholas Aylward Vigors regarding a request to add labels to a great portion of the animals at the Zoological Society of London
Letter from the Societe Royal d'Histoire Naturelle de Gand to David William Mitchell regarding the payment for delivery of animals
Copies of letters regarding the drainage system of the gardens of the Zoological Society into Regent's Canal, with accompanying map
Letters from Elizabeth Matilda Dickens to Philip Lutley Sclater regarding tickets for the gardens of the Zoological Society of London
Correspondence with Dresden Zoo an invitation to visit London Zoo and Whipsnade, and back numbers of the Oryx journal