Correspondence between A Forbes and Geoffrey Marr Vevers regarding a series of deaths of cats at the Game Preservations Department in Khartoum and treatment for feline enteritis, Black Wildebeest, and birds and animals for sale
Correspondence between James Thompson, Head Keeper at London Zoo, and David William Mitchell regarding the expense to carry out the experiment of rearing mammals and birds in the Hill Country for transmission to Enland, and the transmission of a collection of Himalayan pheasants to the Zoological Society of London
Letter from Catherine Barnes regarding a stuffed specimen of 'Ground Dove'. Says she was attempting to bring Edward Turner Bennett two live humming birds, fed on sugar solution, but both died in a storm
Letters from J Neeves regarding an Anas Cygna or Chin Chow Goose, a letter from Mr Acali referring to the new Purple Headed Pheasant, a little tortoise that belonged to his daughter which he asked the Zoological Society of London to take charge of in his absence, his son who had been in China to procure a Medallion Pheasant and some bird skins sent by his son for the Zoological Society of London
Letter from H C James to David William Mitchell regarding his dispatch to Calcutta from Darjeeling, and birds that are destined for the Zoological Society of London
Letters from Rajendra Mullick to David William Mitchell giving thanks for a shipment of birds shipped from the Zoological Society of London and reports on zoology, and birds and animals onboard the Prince of Wales for the Zoological Society of London
Letters from Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker to Philip Lutley Sclater regarding collections of birds and botany
Letters to PL Sclater asking him to correct the bird names in Darwin's new book, 'Descent of Man'.
Letter from J G Vidjen of the Queensland Acclimatisation Society, to Philip Lutley Sclater regarding a shipment of birds for the Zoological Society of London
Letters from Carl Jacob Sundevall, Director of the Royal Museum Stockholm, to Philip Lutley Sclater regarding specimens found in the Museum such as Galapagos birds