Letters from John Gould regarding a Zebra that was exhibiting signs of tetanus, the request of a salary of £50 for the new arrangement by the Museum Committee, an expedition to collect specimens for the Zoological Society of London and several gifts to the Society
Correspondence between Clarence Bartlett, Philip Lutley Sclater and Balmoral Castle regarding the skin and skeleton of a giraffe and the donation of the skin to the Natural History Museum. Also telegrams from Balmoral Castle sending the Queen's condolences on the death of the giraffe and her request that it should be buried
Letters from Jules Verreaux of the Museum d'Histoire Naturelle, to Philip Lutley Sclater
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 concerning the Symposium held on 11-12 June 1987; correspondence with William Timym about his bronze Oryx model
Letter from John Humphrys regarding the identification of shells he had though of as Indian origin, and a discussion about his collection
Letter from M Swainson regarding the collection of fish purchased from the Zoological Society of London from the museum of Mr Guilding
Letter from Felix Anton Dohrn to Philip Lutley Sclater regarding an enquiry by Gegenbaur and publications of the Zoological Society of London
Letters from Friedrich Finsch, Curator of the Museum of Natural History in Bremen to Philip Lutley Sclater