This file contains annual budget reports.

This file contains budget records for capital building projects including a taxidermy facility and entomology and zoology storage ranges.

This file contains Life Science divisions field program budget records.

This file contains collecting permits for an expedition to Mexico led by Kenneth E. Stager and includes correspondence and an issue of Museum Quarterly.

This series consists of collections management information, accessions data, space allocation reports, and object lists relating the the Life Sciences Divsion of the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles county and includes the sub-sections Ornithology-Mammalogy, Habitat Groups, Entomology, Anthropology, Botany, Marine Zoology, and Invertebrate Zoology.

This file contains collections management policies and procedures for the entomology department.

This file contains collections management policies and procedures for the herpetology department.

This file contains collections management policies and procedures for the invertebrate zoology department.

This file contains collections management policies and procedures for the mammalogy department.

This file contains correspondence regarding marine mammal collections, the Southwest Museum, entomology and herpetology collecting expeditions to Mexico, collecting expeditions to West Africa, counterfeit Tikal ceramics, lectures and presentations, ornithology collections, dioramas and habitat groups, and whale collecting expeditions. This file includes exchanges with the Brookfield Zoo and Marineland of the Pacific.