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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

Letter to Dr L G Goodwin of the Nuffield Institute of Comparative Medicine, regarding applications for the Scientific Fellowship, an application before the MRC, and his report on his visit to the Serengeti

Correspondence regarding the importation of wild animals and birds from Abyssinia including Gelada Baboons and Royal Starlings

Letter from Sibyl Flower to Joan Procter regarding her husband being in the Sudan and a box of tortoises to be brought to England

Correspondence between Dr J Richard Hudson and Geoffrey Marr Vevers regarding a young giraffe named Twiga which was sent to the Zoological Society of London from the Veterinary Research Laboratory in Kabete, Kenya

Correspondence between ZSL Library and Geoffrey Marr Vevers regarding a report about Congo Elephants to be deposited in the Library, the return of a book to the Library called 'Wild Animals in Captivity, a collection of photographs taken by the husband of Cherry Kearton, and a donation of engravings from Lady Smith Woodward

Correspondence between United States Lines and Geoffrey Marr Vevers regarding a consignment of animals on the Russell R Jones

Correspondence between C Bretell and Geoffrey Marr Vevers regarding the offer to bring live animals from Kenya to the Zoological Society of London

Correspondence between S R Cleland-Scott and Geoffrey Marr Vevers regarding the purchase and shipping of a lion from Kenya to the Zoological Society of London called The Last Straw, and a male Leopard called Alexander

Correspondence between C Elford and Geoffrey Marr Vevers regarding his two Ring Tailed Lemurs in Madagascar