Letters from Charles Jamrach to Philip Lutley Sclater regarding payments for animals including a bison and lions
Letters from Murray M Johnson to Philip Lutley Sclater regarding the Zoological Society of London being liable for a surveyor's fee, the Society's position as tenants, sewers and drains in the gardens, a bill in chancery regarding pheasants which were claimed by the Acclimatisation Society, the lease for the piece of ground on the north side of the canal, the purchase of premises situated in Hanover Square and Oxford Street, and Regent's Canal railway
Letters from Winifred Johnston to Philip Lutley Sclater regarding her paroquet that she wished to deposit at the gardens of the Zoological Society of London and the death of Dinduna, her baboon
Letters from Hartmann W Just to Philip Lutley Sclater, and a draft reply, regarding the transportation of a giraffe for the Queen
Papers regarding the authority of the council of the Zoological Society of London, including the legal opinion on the right of Council to grant pensions to staff and office; information regarding the illegality of Council's submitting its acts performed by virtue of the powers so conferred on them for confirmation or reversal by a General Meeting of the Fellows; Council's authority to appoint staff without reference to the Fellows; original authority for paying the Secretary; legal opinion regarding Dr Sclater's pension; authority to the Society to dispose of property and a codicil to Sir Peter Chalmers Mitchell's will
Letters from C Glasfurd to Philip Lutley Sclater regarding sending two bears to the Zoological Society of London
Letters from Sir Edward Gray to Philip Lutley Sclater regarding an exchange of animals with the Zoological Society of London, transporting eland from South Africa, and the offer of a hybrid between a British Pintail and a Wigeon
Letters from Arthur Grote to Philip Lutley Sclater regarding a shipment of birds
Letters from John Henry Gurney to Philip Lutley Sclater regarding Ciccaba nigrolineata