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
Edward George Boulenger spent three weeks in America where he visited and studied the aquaria, zoological parks and museums in New York and Chicago
Letters from W A Conklin of the Department of Public Parks in New York, to Philip Lutley Sclater regarding the birth of an elephant at a circus in Philadelphia
Draft 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 Arthur E Brown of the Zoological Society of Philadelphia, to Philip Lutley Sclater regarding the birth of an African elephant
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
Letters from Spencer Fullerton Baird of Washington to Philip Lutley Sclater regarding ornithology
Letters from William Henry Huxley to Philip Lutley Sclater regarding alligators of North America and other matters
Correspondence with James M Kittleman regarding a vacancy for an Executive Director at the Chicago Zoological Park
Letter from Samuel Pierpont Langley of the Smithsonian Institution to Philip Lutley Sclater regarding the establishment of a Zoological Park in the City of Washington