An album of black and white and colour photographs, including images of herpetofauna (snakes, frogs and crocodiles) in captivity and in the wild, as well as various zoo reptile enclosures, including Berlin, Frankfurt, Stuttgart, Singapore and Chester
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
Files relating to a trip Thompson took to Calcutta to bring back animals. Includes finances, bills and a brief diary.
Letters from Frederic Brine to Philip Lutley Sclater regarding the living conditions of a gorilla, a sacred white elephant which was said to have been in Siam but which he refuted, and the height and weight of Jumbo and Jenny
Letter regarding an order of 4 Pythons, 6 Bengal Monitors and 50 Rhesus Monkeys by the Zoological Society of London
Correspondence with Geoffrey Marr Vevers regarding the exchange of animals between Calcutta Zoo and the Zoological Society of London
Correspondence between S Cotterill and Geoffrey Marr Vevers regarding a quotation for animals being shipped from Singapore to the Zoological Society of London
Correspondence with the Maharajah of Baroda regarding a collection of animals to be given to the Zoological Society of London
Correspondence between Lieutenant Binfield and Geoffrey Marr Vevers regarding a Royal Bengal Tiger offered to the Zoological Society of London
Letter regarding a Bill of Lading for the wild animals shipped to the Zoological Society of London per S.S. City of Calcutta