Instructions on the control of expenditure, notes on reserves and procedures for placing orders, paying bills and entering into agreements
Papers regarding the authority of the council of the Zoological Society of London, including the legal opinion on the right of Council to grant pensions to staff and office; information regarding the illegality of Council's submitting its acts performed by virtue of the powers so conferred on them for confirmation or reversal by a General Meeting of the Fellows; Council's authority to appoint staff without reference to the Fellows; original authority for paying the Secretary; legal opinion regarding Dr Sclater's pension; authority to the Society to dispose of property and a codicil to Sir Peter Chalmers Mitchell's will
2 volumes of autographs collected by Hugh S Gladstone (1877-1949), and presented to the society by him. Gladstone was a Scottish Ornithologist and landowner. Volume 2 contains a list of 161 autographs (signatures) of naturalists, but Volume 1 does not contain a list.
Gladstone, Hugh SteuartCorrespondence between the Avicultural Society and George Soper Cansdale regarding an invitation for Cansdale and his wife to attended the nineteenth Meeting and Dinner of the British Aviculturists' Club, and ten Blue Masked Lovebirds that had arrived from the San Diego Zoo
List of award of bronze medals at the Annual General Meeting of the Zoological Society of London
Notice of the award of the gold medal of the Zoological Society of London to Alfred Ezra
Letter from A Verey & Co. to Philip Lutley Sclater regarding a young gorilla and chimpanzee from Africa