Letters from the United Planters Association of Southern India to Philip Lutley Sclater regarding attempts to introduce appropriate varieties of Ladybirds from Australia for the extermination of certain scale pests
Correspondence between the Zoological Garden in Alipore and the Zoological Society of London regarding a collection for the Society being shipped from Colombo to Calcutta by Mr Osman Hill
Correspondence between Mr Fish, Librarian of the Zoological Society of London, and the Duke of Edinburgh's Royal Regiment and the India Office Library and Records regarding research into Henry Jones
Bound volume contains payments by the Zoological Society of London to James Thompson for disbursement of cash in connection with his mission to India, with a bundle of receipts
Correspondence with Professor K Lorenz regarding a grey lag, a jackdaw and a mallard to be taken to Lime Grove, a paper on the ethology of the European Bullfinch by Dr Jurgen Nicolai, and a request for bullfinches from Calcutta
Correspondence American Express and Geoffrey Marr Vevers regarding animals being shipped to the Zoological Society of London, including mink on board the SS Corrales, a white owl on SS Empire McCullum, a collection of animals aboard the SS Isipingo, a sloth bear cub from Bombay on SS Mantola, five monkeys on SS Isipingo, a bear cub on SS Mantola, animals on SS Deido, kangaroos on SS Rivercrest, animals aboard SS Tarkwa, caotimundis and capybara on SS Arakaka, a leopard on SS Congonia, a bandicoot on SS Brittanic, a shipment on SS Freetown, an ocelot and owl on Arakaka
Correspondence between Ellerman & Bucknall Steamship Co. Ltd and Geoffrey Marr Vevers regarding a shipment of birds, leopards and sundries from Calcutta to Colombo
Formal note of thanks from James Prinsep of the Asiatic Society of Bengal, for the Zoological Society of London Proceedings for 1832 and part of 1833
Letters from Grindlay and Co to Philip Lutley Sclater regarding the transport of animals and birds from Calcutta
Correspondence with Rear-Admiral Christopher Bonham-Carter animals to be collected from India, Pakistan, Nepal and Iran, a request for otters and admission prices for students