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Letters from P L Strachan of the Colonial Civil Service regarding his arrival in Sierra Leone, having been shipwrecked on 'the West India Islands', the deaths of the five African Woodcocks that he was bringing, the survival of a large scorpion (which may have accompanied the letter, a shipment of alligators and a mud turtle. Also comments that Bennett had not mentioned Mr Actin Governor ole and his brother having been admitted as Fellows

Letters from Spencer Fullerton Baird of Washington to Philip Lutley Sclater regarding ornithology

Correspondence between Rowley Bristow and Geoffrey Marr Vevers regarding material showing the comparative anatomy of the forearm and Ronald Furlong of St Thomas' Hospital who was working on the surgery of the hand and tendons in America

Correspondence between Portland Zoological Park and Geoffrey Marr Vevers, and newspaper cuttings, regarding an exchange of reptiles, wallabies and hedgehogs

Correspondence between Geoffrey Marr Vevers and Philadelphia Zoological Garden regarding shipments of animals between their zoos, including Kodiak Bears, Coyotes, Raccoons, Aoudads, Thars, Opposums, Turkey Vultures, Screech Owls, Robins, Purple Grackles, Wood Thrushes, Olive-backed Thrush, Bicknell's Thrush, reptiles and amphibians

Letter regarding an extract from a letter received from Robert Bean, Director of the Chicago Zoological Park, regarding several gorillas that were taken to the United States

Letters from Charles Kingsley to Philip Lutley Sclater regarding naturalists in Denver, Colorado, specimens for the Zoological Society of London, and the paper of the ex-governor of Trinidad

Letter from Samuel Pierpont Langley of the Smithsonian Institution to Philip Lutley Sclater regarding the establishment of a Zoological Park in the City of Washington

Letters from Sir Charles Lyell to Philip Lutley Sclater regarding the donations of a text regarding Charles Darwin to the Library of the Zoological Society of London, a list of books to be purchased for the Library, the foundation of a zoological society in Boston, Massachusetts, and a request from keepers to read books on natural history and the animals in their care