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Correspondence between Dierenpark Wassenaar and George Soper Cansdale regarding the sale of Shoebill Storks to the Zoological Society of London

Letters from William Heame regarding the arrival of the Brig 'Adak' at London Docks with a Hawksbill Turtle, 2 Land Tortoises, 1 male ditto, 1 Pigeon, 6 Doves and a flamingo which is supposed to be dead and only a skin. Also speaks of the arrival of his display cabinet and asks the Zoological Society of London to select and withdraw all the insects they desire from drawers of his in their possession

Letter from William Martin, Secretary of the Bristol and Clifton Zoological Gardens, to John Barlow regarding a specimen they held of an Active Gibbon which they offered for sale to the Zoological Society of London

Letter regarding the purchase of birds for the Zoological Society of London

Correspondence between S R Cleland-Scott and Geoffrey Marr Vevers regarding the purchase and shipping of a lion from Kenya to the Zoological Society of London called The Last Straw, and a male Leopard called Alexander

Correspondence between Rafiq Khan and Geoffrey Marr Vevers regarding the sale of Zoological specimens to the Zoological Society of London, with a price list

Correspondence between Leslie Martin Flewin and Geoffrey Marr Vevers regarding the sale and surplus of animals from German zoological collections, and animals and birds on loan from Hagenbeck's Tierpark in Hamburg

Correspondence between Geoffrey Marr Vevers and Kathleen Goddard, and letter of introduction from David Seth-Smith, regarding the sale of a budgerigar

Correspondence between D Goodwin and Geoffrey Marr Vevers regarding a request to purchase a cock barbary dove from London Zoo

Correspondence between the Marine Biological Association and Geoffrey Marr Vevers regarding the sale of fish to the Zoological Society of London