Correspondence, permits, accounts, bill of entry, cartage and shipping warrant regarding the export of six stanley cranes to the Zoological Society of London

Letter from W H Martin to the Zoological Society of London regarding the transportation of livestock

Letter from the Zoological Society of London to Joao de Freitas Martins regarding his offer to supervise the shipping of consignments of Madeira fish to the Aquarium

Correspondence between the Zoological Garden in Alipore and the Zoological Society of London regarding a collection for the Society being shipped from Colombo to Calcutta by Mr Osman Hill

Correspondence with Rear-Admiral Christopher Bonham-Carter animals to be collected from India, Pakistan, Nepal and Iran, a request for otters and admission prices for students

Correspondence with Viscount Head regarding the transport of a Gibbon to Lagos, and Chimpanzees and Swans to Kuala Lumpur

Letters from Alfred Russel Wallace to Philip Lutley Sclater regarding the purchase of a joint residential estate, extracts read at meetings of the Zoological Society of London, papers for the Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London and Natural Science, his publication on 'Monkeys - their structure, affinities and distribution', a shipment of birds for the Society, improvements to the Gardens of the Zoological Society of London, notes on the Umbrella Bird, his election as a Fellow, papers on marine mammals, opinions on theories by Darwin, Birds of Paradise, and a list of butterflies of Costa Rica

Letters from H Windhorn to Philip Lutley Sclater regarding the transport and death of the Queen's Giraffe

Letter from Carl Hagenbeck to Peter Chalmers Mitchell regarding his shipment of a buffalo to the Zoological Society of London

Memorandum by the Secretary regarding the care of animals (mammals, birds, reptiles, fishes, etc) in transport