Correspondence with the Coryndon Museum regarding the sale of an Ostrich to the Zoological Society of London, and the offer of a Cricetomys and a Hinged Tortoise
Correspondence between the Geological Survey & Museum and Geoffrey Marr Vevers regarding wells in the Zoological Society of London Gardens
Correspondence between the British Museum (Natural History) and George Soper Cansdale regarding specimens donated by the Zoological Society of London to the British Museum (Natural History)
Letters from Phineas Taylor Barnum to Philip Lutley Sclater regarding the purchase and transfer of Alice the elephant. Also a letter regarding the purchase of specimens for Barnum's Zoological Museum
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
Letters from Decimus Burton to Edward Turner Bennett regarding his brother's giraffe, the location of the parrot cage, drawings of the museum, the risk of fires, and the meeting of the creditors of the Colosseum
Correspondence between Sir Arthur Landsborough Thomson and L Harrison Matthews regarding Council Meetings, a proposed educational exhibit, a museum of the Zoological Society of London, the Scientific Fellowship, and the Department of Zoology in Cambridge
Correspondence between the Museum of Zoology at the University of Cambridge and Geoffrey Marr Vevers regarding eggs for the egg-tasting panel, and a donation of grass snakes to the Museum of Zoology
Correspondence between Pat Maxwell and George Soper Cansdale regarding sending dead snakes to the Royal Albert Memorial Museum at Exeter
Letters from William Saville Kent of the Museum and Institute of Pisciculture Society Limited, to Philip Lutley Sclater regarding the establishment of a marine observatory and laboratory in connection with the Brighton Aquarium, his appointment as Inspector of Fisheries to the Government of Tasmania, his application to become a Fellow of the Zoological Society of London, his inspection of the fish house, enquiries about the vacant post of Prosector, and a proposed British Zoological Station for the study of marine animals and plats with relation to the advancement of the sciences of biology and economic pisciculture