Letter from J Leigh to William Turner Bennett to say that 'Capt Bowles wants you to inform him by what means you will have a seal' on board a ship in Liverpool forwarded to the Gardens of the Zoological Society of London. Also enquires as to whether a mistake has been made as to Goss's wages

Letters from R J Lowe regarding casks of fish sent to the Zoological Society of London and what he regards as a new species which he names Alepisaurus

Letters from Sir Robert Ker Porter in Caracas thanking Bennett for the his letter and Proceedings of the Society's committees, the good health of a tapir, a bear belonging to a resident in Caracas, a bird called Curapoas (or Forvies), the shipment of a Capuchin Monkey, 'a very curious little animals of the weasel kind, and six land tortoises by the Brig 'Pedraza', a consignment he received save for the weasel which was washed overboard, and descriptions of the consignment in the 'Pedraza'

Letters from P L Strachan of the Colonial Civil Service regarding his arrival in Sierra Leone, having been shipwrecked on 'the West India Islands', the deaths of the five African Woodcocks that he was bringing, the survival of a large scorpion (which may have accompanied the letter, a shipment of alligators and a mud turtle. Also comments that Bennett had not mentioned Mr Actin Governor ole and his brother having been admitted as Fellows

Correspondence between Edward Blyth and David William Mitchell regarding the shipment of animals to the Zoological Society of London

Letters from J M Davies regarding the shipment of animals to the Zoological Society of London

Letter from John Green to David William Mitchell regarding the transport of the hippopotamus on the 'Ripon' for the Zoological Society of London

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

Correspondence regarding the transportation of a Guiana Cylinder Snake and a Hosewhip Snake from Plantation Diamond

Letters from C S Webb to Alastair Morrison regarding animals from British Cameroon for the Zoological Society of London, including Sunbirds and a gorilla