This file contains correspondence regarding museum field work, museum expedition reports, and Science division meeting reports. It includes information on the Machris expedition to Central India, Brazil expedition plans, and other habitat group and Machris-funded collecting expeditions.

This file contains correspondence regarding field work and specimen collection.

This file contains funding records for the Fisher Sudan expedition.

This file contains Foundation correspondence regarding Proposition 13, Hancock Park museum development, museum tool replacement, a jaguar collecting expedition to Mexico, budget plans, grant applications, and foundation policies and procedures.

The Frank S. Daggett Collection documents the activities of Museum Director Frank S. Daggett (1855-1920) from 1911-1920 and is comprised primarily of correspondence, budget records, press releases, and scientific collecting permits and incldues correspondence regarding Hancock Park and Rancho La Brea, collecting expeditions to Alaska and Africa, and includes correspondence with Theodore Roosevelt.

This file contains mixed correspondence, including correspondence related to specimen collecting trips by the Museum taxidermist.

This file contains mixed correspondence regarding an expedition to the Galapagos, union local 660, a subpoena for appearance of witness, and information regarding artist in residence Siging Zhou.

This file contains mixed correspondence regarding hunting deer in Mexico, prohibition against hunting mountain sheep, and the Antelope habitat group and included correspondence with Carl Akeley.

This file contains mixed correspondence and includes information regarding a cancelled collecting trip to Kodiak Island, Alaska.

This file contains mixed correspondence and includes a report of recommendations to the Board of Governors relating to the Museum's habitat groups calling for more representative halls and replacement of inferior taxidermy. It includes correspondence regarding a collecting expedition to Alaska, and a permit for MGM studios to photograph gorillas or to receive specimens of gorillas who had been killed in "self defense."