Letters from Henry Stacey Marks to Philip Lutley Sclater requesting him to send someone to fetch two herring gulls, a reference for Miss L Murray to sketch in the gardens of the Zoological Society of London, and a reference for Dr Ramage who was a candidate for the post of Medical Attendant to the keepers of the Zoological Society
Correspondence between R & S Mullens to Philip Lutley Sclater regarding the trial of Ellis for taking a pigeon from the Gardens of the Zoological Society of London
Letters from G C Rankin to Philip Lutley Sclater regarding his proposed alteration in the regulations as regards Saturday tickets to the Gardens of the Zoological Society of London, with copies of replies from Philip Lutley Sclater
Letters from Thomas Mayne Reid to Philip Lutley Sclater regarding his sale of Jacob Sheep and books or papers about British birds
Letters from George Frederick Samuel Robinson, 1st Marquess of Ripon, to Philip Lutley Sclater regarding Japanese deer for sale at the Zoological Society of London, and a deputation of Swazi Chiefs who would like to visit the Gardens of the Zoological Society of London
Letters from George John Romanes to Philip Lutley Sclater regarding research into whether mutilations are ever inherited and Weismann's theory of heredity
Letters from Lionel Walter Rothschild, 2nd Baron Rothschild, to Philip Lutley Sclater regarding an expedition to the Sandwich Islands, papers on birds of the Sandwich Islands, drawings of a Rail, ornithological exhibitions, the sale of a rhinoceros, his drawing of a rhinoceros to be published in the Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, his Cassowaries at Tring, a transfer of Tragelaphus, Galapagos Tortoises, Eclectus Parrots, Lemurs and Zebras
Letters from Nathaniel Charles Rothschild to Philip Lutley Sclater requesting larvae of Biston Hirtaria and a live marten caught in Wales to be deposited at the Zoological Society of London
Letters from J & R Kemp and Co to Philip Lutley Sclater regarding Regent's Canal City and Docks Railway Bill
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