Correspondence declining the offer of a Tibetan Bear by Sir Antony Rumbold to the Zoological Society of London
Correspondence between J R Davis and Philip Lutley Sclater regarding the transport of the elephant and Burmese Bronzes
Letter from H Dormenberg to Philip Lutley Sclater, and draft reply, regarding the price of eider-ducks
Letter from Wynfrid Laurence Henry Duckworth to Philip Lutley Sclater regarding his possible purchase of a gorilla which had arrived in London
Letters from Arthur Herbert to Philip Lutley Sclater regarding the collections of Graham Kerr left on board the Bolivia
Letters from Sir Francis John Pakenham to Philip Lutley Sclater regarding the Picomayo expedition and Mr Kerr's collection
Letters from C Reiche to Philip Lutley Sclater regarding the transportation of a sealion and a pair of ostriches to the Zoological Society of London
Letters from Arthur Walden, Marquess of Tweedale, to Philip Lutley Sclater regarding an offer from the Duke of Wellington of two male llamas, Fellowship of the Zoological Society of London, specimens of an insect, and subscriptions to the Society
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
Letter from William Tyler Hamilton saying the elephant had arrived and appeared least worse for it. It was a valuable addition to the collection. They are likely to lost the last fine male as it was showing signs of enlargement of the epiglottis which proved fatal in the female