Correspondence between Vought, Fullbrook and Co and George Soper Cansdale regarding the offer of a Rhinoceros to the Zoological Society of London

Correspondence between Veale & Saunders and the Treasurer of the Zoological Society of London regarding the construction of the new Elephant and Rhinoceros House at London Zoo

Letters from Frederick Courteney Selous to Philip Lutley Sclater regarding his papers, notes on his egg collecting trip to Asia Minor, admission to the Gardens of the Zoological Society of London, a donation towards the International Congress of Zoology, notes on the red Rhebuck, meetings the Zoological Society of London, the horns of a white rhinoceros, his election as a corresponding member of the Society and accounts of his travels

Letters from John Sabine regarding the housing of the Rhinoceros and Tapir, conversations with Fuller about a larger repository for the greater carnivores, committee meetings of the Zoological Society of London and the dismissal of the head gardener and his recommendation of Morris Burr as his successor

Letters from Lionel Walter Rothschild, 2nd Baron Rothschild, to Philip Lutley Sclater regarding an expedition to the Sandwich Islands, papers on birds of the Sandwich Islands, drawings of a Rail, ornithological exhibitions, the sale of a rhinoceros, his drawing of a rhinoceros to be published in the Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, his Cassowaries at Tring, a transfer of Tragelaphus, Galapagos Tortoises, Eclectus Parrots, Lemurs and Zebras

Letter from Robert I Montgomery, Secretary of the Royal Zoological Society of Ireland, to Philip Lutley Sclater regarding the cost of the transit of a rhinoceros

Letters from Alexander Miller of the Zoological Gardens regarding a Chinese Pheasant which escaped and had been running in Park Street, Camden Town, an escape from the Dove House, the removal of an oak fence on the southern boundary, the health of a Rhinoceros, the Society's Cashmere Goat, his visit to City Road Basin, the purchase of a Chimpanzee, a visit by the Queen to the Gardens, a stillborn Rhesus Monkey, dimensions of the back of a new den for the Elephant and Rhinoceros, the cost of laying the floor of the Elephant and Rhinoceros House, the death of a Chimpanzee and the return of John Woodbridge with Cranes and Leopards

Letter from Julian Sorell Huxley to Henry G Maurice regarding a Rhino and a Giraffe at the Gardens of the Zoological Society of London

Correspondence between John Spedan Lewis, of the John Lewis Partnership, and Julian Sorell Huxley regarding the design and construction of a new Elephant and Rhinoceros House at the Zoological Society of London