Letters from Charles Telfaire to Nicholas Aylward Vigors regarding his research on the Dodo, a tortoise from the Seychelles, tortoises of the Amirante Islands and Mombasa, and a Chamaeleon from the north of Madagascar to be presented to the Zoological Society of London
Letter from George Ernest Shelley to Philip Lutley Sclater regarding the H H Johnston collection from the Cameroon swamps
Correspondence regarding a notice in the Army Medical Department Bulletin requesting living specimens from Africa for the Zoological Society of London
Correspondence between Oliver Stanley, Secretary of State for the Colonies, and the Zoological Society of London regarding a collection of fauna of East Africa
Contains a mention of David Attenborough's Zoo Quest to Madagascar
Zonder titelBound with: List of Unfigured Species of Birds
Correspondence between Sir Arthur Landsborough Thomson and L Harrison Matthews regarding applications for the appointment as Veterinary Pathologist at the Zoological Society of London, Scientific Meetings, articles on Gambia, Gophers, the selection of recipients of the John Scott Medal Award, and the sequence of families in the systematic part of the Aves Zoo
Correspondence between Sir Arthur Landsborough Thomson and L Harrison Matthews regarding Scientific Meetings, meetings of the Publications Committee, David Attenborough's talk again his Madagascar trip, draft minutes, and candidates for the Scientific Fellowship
Workmen's Compensation Insurance Policy from Commercial Union Assurance Company Limited for Dr. A.S. Young, working in Muguga, Kenya
Correspondence between Stanley Smyth Flower and Patrick Alfred Buxton of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine requesting information on poisonous snakes of Egypt, Libya and the Barbary States