Letter from the Secretary of the United Services Museum, accompanying two specimens of birds killed in Mexico and of a Scoter killed at Southampton. The letter asks the Zoological Society of London to inspect and return them
Letter from H Woods who says he spoke to Wombwell (a dealer in Commercial Road) about the kangaroo. He would be satisfied with the female and would give an equivalent. He had his eye on a bear in the corner on the left of the elephants. He encloses a drawing of the head of the bear but the den was too dark to see it distinctly
Letter from G O Wooler saying that he had come up from Wolsingham to see his son Joseph, who had been in Bombay and had brought back a Black Dog (domesticated in Bombay although of the species Parish - wild dog). He considers that it is what Captain Williams calls a Dhole, which usually go in packs
Report of the Committee's consideration of 22 improvements to London Zoo suggested by Gambier Bolton. Also includes expenditure on advertising during 1891
Committee papers of the Zoo Standards Committee, an ad hoc committee set up by the Conference of Directors of Zoological Societies of England, Scotland and Ireland
Minutes and agendas of meetings of the Zoo Standards Committee. Meetings were held at the Zoological Society of London