Lists specimens in the Museum, with an arrival date, whether stuffed or in spirit, country, how obtained, and occasionally who deposited them. Arrival dates are from 1827-1840. Split into three groups of animals. Some specimens are from Sir Stamford Raffles' Sumatran collection. 

Correspondence between the Ministry of Civil Aviation and Geoffrey Marr Vevers regarding the importation by air of consignments of reptiles and insects from East Africa

Correspondence between Copenhagen Zoo and George Soper Cansdale regarding a request for a dozen Ruffs for the Zoological Society of London, the Zoo Directors' Congress, and a consignment of mammals, birds and reptiles from Australia

Correspondence with Joan Procter, Curator of Reptiles, regarding safety regulations in the Reptile House

Diaries kept by staff that record events, visitors, health of animals etc., in the Reptile House at London Zoo

Letter from Edmund B d'Auvergne to Philip Lutley Sclater regarding the feeding of live animals to snakes in the Reptile House

Letter from Georgiana Eckstein to Philip Lutley Sclater requesting tickets to witness the feeding of reptiles at the Zoological Society of London

Letters from a schoolboy called John Brandon Jones to Joan Procter regarding visits to London Zoo and congratulating her on her role as Curator of Reptiles

Letter from Arthur Loveridge of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard University, to Joan Procter regarding a shipment of reptiles for London Zoo