Letters from John Sabine regarding the housing of the Rhinoceros and Tapir, conversations with Fuller about a larger repository for the greater carnivores, committee meetings of the Zoological Society of London and the dismissal of the head gardener and his recommendation of Morris Burr as his successor
Letters from Monsieur A Valenciennes of the Jardin des Plantes in Paris regarding the fish Alepisaurus and of the progress of zoological science and of co-operation
Letter from Dr Wrathermad enclosing a more extended comment for his friend Mr Maude's letter reporting the burrowing of Ornithorguchus
Letters from William Yarrell regarding a heraldic question raised by Edward Turner Bennett, an unspecified dispute which had been considered at a meeting of the Council at Grosvenor Square, and a manuscript of Walcott's 'British Birds' asking Bennett to allow the dates 1784 and 1785 to stand since Walcott left Teignmouth for Chelsea in 1786 and was resident in Chelsea in 1787
William Yarrell was a zoologist. He was one of the original members of the Zoological Society of London and was a founder of the Royal Entomological Society. He was ZSL Secretary from 1836-1838.
John Barlow was was an Anglican priest. He was ZSL Secretary from 1837-1838, after which he spent many years at the Royal Institution.
Letters from Robert Ball, Secretary of the Royal Zoological Society of Ireland, to John Barlow regarding the exchange of animals with the Zoological Society of London
Letter from Augustus Elliott Fuller to John Barlow regarding an eagle in his possession which was shot and killed on Anglesey, and may want to be stuffed by the Zoological Society of London
Letters from William Ogilby to E J Bennett regarding his examination of skins and other matters at the Zoological Society of London
Letter from Sir Richard Owen to William Ogilby regarding his attendance at a committee meeting of the Zoological Society of London and a big bird bone which he believed to be about the age of a Dodo