Minutes of the Nuffield Institute of Comparative Medicine Planning Group. A grant had been made by the Trustees of the Nuffield Foundation for the provision of such an Institute at Regent's Park on a side adjoining the Animal Hospital and Pathology Laboratories of the Zoological Society of London, and for the establishment of two senior research fellowships. The object was to make full use of the valuable material derived from the various species of mammals, reptiles, birds, and other animals in the Society's Collections for purposes of comparative medical research

Letters from Edward George Boulenger to Joan Procter regarding Salamander larvae, attendance at Zoological Society of London Scientific Meetings, the purchase of alligators, the transformation of axolotl, snakes for sale, a reference to a crab-eating frog, her exhibition of the batrachia in the public galleries, and the death of reptiles deposited by Joan Procter

A collection of papers mainly relating to the herpetology of Hong Kong, including a typewritten papers entitled 'Notes on the Geckos of Hong Kong', a series of black and white photographs (plus negatives) showing a Hong Kong landscape with accompanying notes detailing the collection of herpetological specimens, a list of reptile and amphibian specimens in Romer's collection, two colour photographs and accompanying sketch of a turtle (Trionyx steindachneri), and Romer's curriculum vitae

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

Letters from Professor Dr J J Hess of Zurich to Patrick Alfred Buxton, regarding the correct forms of the Arabic names of reptiles and mammals, and general notes on transliteration and the use of diacritical points

Memorandum by the Secretary on Reptile House and Aquarium admissions

Letter from William Brown to Philip Lutley Sclater regarding the price of a koala or native bear, and a request for reptiles from Queensland

Letter from F T Monro to Philip Lutley Sclater regarding the private feeding of reptiles in the Gardens of the Zoological Society of London