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Letter from Louis-Philippe Albert Orléans, Comte de Paris, to Philip Lutley Sclater regarding five young wild boars for the Zoological Society of London

Letter from Sir William Newenham Montague Orpen to certify that D M Parker is an art student and recommending permission be granted to her to study at the Zoological Society of London Gardens

Letter from John Osborne to Philip Lutley Sclater regarding his subscription to the Zoological Society of London

Correspondence between Geoffrey Marr Vevers and Dr Osman-Hill of the Department of Anatomy, University of Edinburgh, regarding his visit to Colombo and a collection on deposit at the Dehiwela Zoological Gardens

Correspondence with Dr Osman Hill and David Ezra regarding the transport of animals

Correspondence between Sir James Outram and David William Mitchell regarding an offer of tigers and a request for game birds, hunting cheetahs, the common leopard, hyenas, jackals and wolves

Letter from Sir Francis Philip Cunliffe Owen to Philip Lutley Sclater requesting Sunday tickets for entrance to the Gardens of the Zoological Society of London

Letters from Richard Owen regarding remarks on Bennett's edition of White's Natural History of Selborne, proofs of Bennett's paper with appreciation of his opinion on the value of Ousimile on Macr. Porryi, additions and alterations to notes on Hyrax, his omitted note of the salivary bags of the Armadillo from the written report of its dissection, MS of Clavagella, plans of the Monkey House and whether it is heated by hot air or steam, arrangements at the Garden to facilitate repetition and extension of experiments by Mr Hunter in 1725/6/7 to determine the relations subsisting between Wolf, Jackall and Dog, examination of 'your little feli-viverrine quadruped, bones of Touraco and drawings of Terebratala for the Zoological Society of London, East India Goats for sale by Mr Evans Riadone, an introduction to Mr Meade, a senior student at St Bartholomew's and a comparative anatomist and articulator of skeletons who wished to become a candidate for the College of Surgeons curatorship, and a request for Bennett to check a reference to 'Zoologie de la Caquille'

Letter from Sir Richard Owen to William Ogilby regarding his attendance at a committee meeting of the Zoological Society of London and a big bird bone which he believed to be about the age of a Dodo