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William Ogilby was a zoologist. He is perhaps best known for this work around the classification order of cheiropoda, linking mammals who had hands. He was ZSL Secretary from 1839-1847.

Letters from Alfred Russel Wallace to Philip Lutley Sclater regarding the purchase of a joint residential estate, extracts read at meetings of the Zoological Society of London, papers for the Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London and Natural Science, his publication on 'Monkeys - their structure, affinities and distribution', a shipment of birds for the Society, improvements to the Gardens of the Zoological Society of London, notes on the Umbrella Bird, his election as a Fellow, papers on marine mammals, opinions on theories by Darwin, Birds of Paradise, and a list of butterflies of Costa Rica

Correspondence between James Thompson, Head Keeper at London Zoo, and David William Mitchell regarding the expense to carry out the experiment of rearing mammals and birds in the Hill Country for transmission to Enland, and the transmission of a collection of Himalayan pheasants to the Zoological Society of London

Letters from Edmund Ruppell, a German citizen from Frankfort, giving appreciation for receipt of his diploma as a foreign member of the Zoological Society of London, Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, comments on his discoveries such as a new variety of Gasteropod, a list of mammals and birds 'our museum wishes to get from England' receipt of the 1934 Proceedings, the first volume of museum catalogue, and his wish to complete the exchange

Report by the Curator of Mammals and Birds following his attendance at the International Ornithological Congress in Rouen and Paris

Memorandum regarding periods of fertility and the fertility rates of the various species of mammals on Exhibition at the Gardens of the Zoological Society of London since 1826

Letters from Sir Harry Hamilton Johnston to Philip Lutley Sclater regarding posts open at the Foreign Office for the consular department, the Kilimanjaro Expedition, papers on birds, mammals and insects from Kilimanjaro, medals to be awarded for services to zoology, animals and specimens sent by Mr Johnston to the Zoological Society of London, drawings of animals, a visit to the gardens of the Zoological Society of London by the Katikiro of Uganda and his party, and his election as a member of the Council and attendance at meetings, and the Zoological Club

Letter from, Bruce S Ingram to Philip Lutley Sclater requesting an illustration in the Illustrated London News of the mammal newly discovered by Sir Harry Johnston

Correspondence regarding a request for birds and mammals from Africa for the Zoological Society of London

Letters from Thomas de Grey to Philip Lutley Sclater regarding his expedition down the Rocky Mountains into New Mexico, skeletons of mammals for the Cambridge museum, and a paper on West Indian Microlepidoptera for the Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London