Many of the records filmed concern expeditions to Australia (including the Australian Bird Expedition of the 1960s), Papua New Guinea, Indonesia, Galapagos Islands, Malaya, North Borneo, Rennell Island, Antarctica, New Zealand, and G.H. Wilkins expeditions to Australia, Solomon Islands and the Arctic. Also includes Colonial Office correspondence re Pacific fauna; correspondence with other museums; records re bequests, meteorites and the Plumage Bill.