Letters from Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker to Philip Lutley Sclater regarding collections of birds and botany
Correspondence between Major H B Sharpe and the Zoological Society of London regarding the collection of animals to replenish London Zoo and the offer of an elephant called Dicksi
Letters from Frederick Courteney Selous to Philip Lutley Sclater regarding his papers, notes on his egg collecting trip to Asia Minor, admission to the Gardens of the Zoological Society of London, a donation towards the International Congress of Zoology, notes on the red Rhebuck, meetings the Zoological Society of London, the horns of a white rhinoceros, his election as a corresponding member of the Society and accounts of his travels
Letters from P L Strachan of the Colonial Civil Service regarding his arrival in Sierra Leone, having been shipwrecked on 'the West India Islands', the deaths of the five African Woodcocks that he was bringing, the survival of a large scorpion (which may have accompanied the letter, a shipment of alligators and a mud turtle. Also comments that Bennett had not mentioned Mr Actin Governor ole and his brother having been admitted as Fellows
Correspondence with the Maharajah of Baroda regarding a collection of animals to be given to the Zoological Society of London
Correspondence declining the offer of a Tibetan Bear by Sir Antony Rumbold to the Zoological Society of London
Letters from D F Kerr of Trinidad Leaseholds Ltd offering to collection animals from Trinidad for London Zoo
Correspondence with Jean Seton regarding an offer of Thompson's Gazelles to the Zoological Society of London
Correspondence regarding the importation of wild animals and birds from Abyssinia including Gelada Baboons and Royal Starlings
Correspondence with Voight, Fullbrook and Co regarding the offer of ostriches to the Zoological Society of London