Letters from Thomas Henry Huxley to Philip Lutley Sclater asking about available birds for dissection, meetings of the Council of the Zoological Society of London, proofs and woodcuts for a paper, specimens of birds and the Marine Biological Association

Letters regarding the appointment of Henry Gascoyne Maurice as President of the Zoological Society of London, and the Trust's application for new accommodation in the Society's premises

Correspondence between the British Museum (Natural History) and Sheffield Airey Neave regarding delegates to the Conference on Nature Preservation in Post-War Reconstruction, and a meeting of the Council

Letter from the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom to the Zoological Society of London regarding the transportation of six tubes, some flat fish (lemon soles and plaice), a few rays, dogfish and some spider crabs. Also a price list of marine specimens

Correspondence between the Royal Entomological Society of London and the Zoological Society of London regarding the election of the President of the Royal Entomological Society as an ex officio honorary member of the Zoological Society

Report on the status and operation of the British Museum (Natural History), and damage suffered as a result of enemy action

Report of a meeting between the Trustees of the British Museum and the representatives of the Museum Conference of Naturalists, with correspondence, a memorandum on the problem of combining the administrative and technical or scientific direction of National Museums with special reference to the British Museum (Natural History) and papers from meetings

Report on the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom in Plymouth

Correspondence with Bernard Fagg of the Department of Antiquities in Jos, regarding the drawing up of a constitution for the Zoological Society of Jos

Letter to Dr F C Fraser of the British Museum (Natural History) regarding his name being put forward as the Society's representative on the National Committee of Biology