Letter regarding the passage of A G Bennett by the Condesa to Montevideo
Correspondence between Anthony Smith and George Soper Cansdale regarding The Oxford University Expedition to Persia
Letters from Thomas de Grey to Philip Lutley Sclater regarding his expedition down the Rocky Mountains into New Mexico, skeletons of mammals for the Cambridge museum, and a paper on West Indian Microlepidoptera for the Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London
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
Letters from John Samuel Budgett to Philip Lutley Sclater regarding his research on okapis and expeditions to study polypterus
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 Sir Thomas Townsend Pears to Philip Lutley Sclater regarding an Abyssinian expedition, during which Mr William Jesse collected about 1250 specimens
Letter from Robert Falcon Scott to Philip Lutley Sclater regarding assistance with the National Antarctic Expedition
Correspondence between G Fitzgerald-Lee and George Soper Cansdale regarding the Hughes Expedition and an offer to sell a female African Pygmy Hippopotamus to the Zoological Society of London
Letters from Frederick John Jackson of the Imperial Institute to Philip Lutley Sclater regarding zoological work of the British Polar Expedition and the offer of three young bear cubs to the Zoological Society of London