Letter regarding the purchase of birds for the Zoological Society of London

Letters from Phineas Taylor Barnum to Philip Lutley Sclater regarding the purchase and transfer of Alice the elephant. Also a letter regarding the purchase of specimens for Barnum's Zoological Museum

Letters from Abraham Dee Bartlett to Philip Lutley Sclater regarding the doors to the new elephant house, animal food consumption, the female rhinoceros, the mounted specimen of a young gorilla, authorisation to sell Alice the elephant to Mr Barnum, and the theft of an owl

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

Correspondence between J Brown and Geoffrey Marr Vevers regarding the purchase of snakes

Correspondence regarding the sale of Crowned Cranes by the Zoological Society of London

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

Correspondence with Geoffrey Marr Vevers regarding the sale of animals from Argentina and Chile to the Zoological Society of London

Correspondence between Keith Caldwell and Geoffrey Marr Vevers regarding the sale and transport of animals to and from the Zoological Society of London

Includes the following printed circulars: PL Sclater to Fellows defending sale of Jumbo to Barnum; President's Address to General Meeting of Fellows; Circular from Fellows about changing by-laws; Motion by Henry Burdett to change by-laws; Fellows' proxy