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 Baring Brothers and Co. to Philip Lutley Sclater regarding the arrival of the ship Renshaw at St Katharine's Docks with the animals shipped by Mr Du Chaillu
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
Correspondence with Lady Olive Bailie regarding her trip to London Zoo and a tour of the birds, and invitation to see her collection of birds, and an offer of Masked Lovebirds for Lady Bailie
Correspondence between Baghdad Zoo and Geoffrey Marr Vevers regarding the proposed opening of a Zoological Garden in Baghdad
Correspondence between Auckland Zoo and George Soper Cansdale regarding a shipment of Keas to the Zoological Society of London. Also, a paper by the City of Auckland on Conditions of Appointment of Curator, Auckland Zoological Park
Correspondence with David Attenborough regarding the diet of Giant Pangolins, a Zoo Quest trip to Paraguay and a request for supplies, a collection of birds, Gerald Durrell's hopes to set up a zoo in Jersey, and two bottle-nosed Dolphins that were caught in the Adriatic and taken to Plymouth by the BBC Natural History Unit
Correspondence between Antwerp Zoo and Geoffrey Marr Vevers regarding an exchange of animals between the Zoological Society of London and Antwerp Zoo, and a paper called 'Notes about our attempt to present snakes separated from the public by an invisible obstacle'
Letter from Antwerp Zoo, with papers on Consideration Upon the Necessity of Coordinating All Observations Taken on Okapis Living in Captivity, and Ways in Exhibiting Birds in Cages
Letters from Captain W Ansell to Geoffrey Marr Vevers regarding an offer to collect animals from Eastern Tibet for the Zoological Society of London