| RefNo | Title | Source |
| DF/ZOO/205/1/109 | J Forshall to Children - requests estimates | |
| DF/ZOO/205/1/35 | G Skeavington to Children - sends horns | |
| DF/ZOO/205/1/23 | Children to Trustees - report on collections | |
| DF/ZOO/205/1/82 | J Forshall to Children - limited space | |
| DF/ZOO/205/1/80 | J E Gray to Children - report on catalogues | |
| DF/ZOO/205/1/150 | Robert Smirke to Children - rebuilding postponed | |
| DF/ZOO/205/1/116 | Children to Trustees - the Museum's anteaters | |
| DF/ZOO/205/1/108 | Children to J Forshall - exchange with Antigua | |
| DF/ZOO/205/1/22 | Children to J E Gray - requests report | |
| DF/ZOO/205/1/77 | J Forshall to Children - furniture | |
| DF/ZOO/205/1/121 | J Forshall to Children - spiders' eggs from Mr Hennah | |
| DF/ZOO/205/1/97-98 | J Forshall to Children - instructions for James Brooke | |
| DF/ZOO/205/1/11 | Committee order - Children instructed to report on the collections | |
| DF/ZOO/205/1/70 | Children - note of George Samouelle's absences | |
| DF/ZOO/205/1/92 | Children - report on cataloguing system | |
| DF/ZOO/205/1/102 | H Ellis to Children - attendance of attendants | |
| DF/ZOO/205/1/84 | Children - arrangement of new building | |
| DF/ZOO/205/1/12 | Children to J E Gray - the shell collection | |
| DF/ZOO/205/1/21 | Children to George Samouelle - requests detailed report on crustacea, arachnida and insecta | |
| DF/ZOO/205/1/38 | Children to J Forshall - enlargement of the collection | |
| DF/ZOO/205/1/141 | J Forshall to Children - table cases lent to König | |
| DF/ZOO/205/1/45-46 | J Forshall to Children - alterations in his duties | |
| DF/ZOO/205/1/106 | Children to J Forshall - estimates for Zoology Branch | |
| DF/ZOO/205/1/36 | G Skeavington to Children - declines offer of £3 (with reply) | |
| DF/ZOO/205/1/154 | Children to his staff - staff not to name specimens for visitors | |
| DF/ZOO/205/1/42 | W J Broderip to [?]Children - shell collection | |
| DF/ZOO/205/1/49 | J Forshall to Children - responsibilities of Keeper of Zoological branch | |
| DF/ZOO/205/1/1 | J Forshall to Children - Hudson Bay Company | |
| DF/ZOO/205/1/26 | Children to J E Gray et al - requests report on duplicates | |
| DF/ZOO/205/1/52 | J E Gray to [?]Children - Mr [Andrew] Smith's Cape mammals | |
| DF/ZOO/205/1/40 | Children to Committee - Gould's Australian birds | |
| DF/ZOO/205/1/126-127 | H Ellis to Children - annual reports, with a list of memoranda | |
| DF/ZOO/205/1/65 | J Forshall to Children - furniture | |
| DF/ZOO/205/1/25 | Children to J E Gray et al - requests report on duplicates | |
| DF/ZOO/205/1/100 | Children to J Forshall - instructions for James Brooke in the Far East | |
| DF/ZOO/205/1/53 | A Miller to Children - offers British water birds | |
| DF/ZOO/205/1/5 | Children to the Committee - stands needed for birds presented by J J Audubon | |
| DF/ZOO/205/1/151 | Children to his staff - progress reports wanted | |
| DF/ZOO/205/2 | 'Report book': J G Children's copies of his reports to Trustees, with other letters and lists, 1835-1837 | |
| DF/ZOO/205/1/128 | Children - answers to H Ellis' memoranda | |
| DF/ZOO/205/1/158 | H Ellis to Children - progress reports | |
| DF/ZOO/205/1/71 | Children to George Samouelle - his attendance and health | |
| DF/ZOO/205/1/55 | Forshall to Children - salary for assistants | |
| DF/ZOO/205/1/114 | Forshall to Children - re Dr [Richard] Parnell, a collector | |
| DF/ZOO/205/1/119 | J Forshall to Children - new impression of 'Instructions for collecting...' | |
| DF/ZOO/205/1/54 | Children to George Samouelle - access to collections | |
| DF/ZOO/205/1/63 | Children to Trustees - purchases and presentations, M.Verreaux's Cape mammals | |
| DF/ZOO/205/1/86 | J Forshall to Children - exchange of Crustacea with Thomas Bell | |
| DF/ZOO/205/1/75 | Children - On the Gray / Blyth affair | |
| DF/ZOO/205/1/107 | J Forshall to Children - exchange with Antigua | |
| DF/ZOO/205/1/73 | J Forshall to Children - allegations of Edward Blyth | |
| DF/ZOO/205/1/120 | J Forshall to Children - re Lord Northampton's Italian specimens | |
| DF/ZOO/205/1/67 | H Ellis to Children - diaries | |
| DF/ZOO/205/1/16 | H Ellis to Children - visitors doing drawings | |
| DF/ZOO/205/1/61 | Children to Trustees - purchases and presentations | |
| DF/ZOO/205/1/56 | Correspondence between Children and J Forshall, George Samouelle, H Ellis and J E Gray | |
| DF/ZOO/205/1/30 | Mr Jenner, Windsor, to Children - offers rat | |
| DF/ZOO/205/1/74 | Children to seven naturalists - conduct of G R Gray | |
| DF/ZOO/205/1/24 | Children to Trustees - duplicate insects | |
| DF/ZOO/205/1/41 | Clift W | |
| DF/ZOO/200/153/18 | Children, J G | |
| DF/ZOO/205/1/58 | Children to George Samouelle - his absence | |
| DF/ZOO/205/1/37 | J Forshall to Children - enlargement of collection | |
| DF/ZOO/200/146 | 'Foreign Letters volume 2': letters to J G Children and J E Gray, mostly from foreign correspondents. Note: circled number at top right of letters is the correct number, 1829-1869 | |
| DF/ZOO/200/145 | 'Foreign Letters volume 1, part 2': letters to J G Children and J E Gray, mostly from foreign correspondents. Note: circled number in top right is the correct number, 1819-1845 | |
| DF/ZOO/200/144 | 'Foreign Letters volume 1, part 1': letters to John G Children and John E Gray, mostly from foreign correspondents, 1819-1845 | |
| DF/ZOO | Zoology | |
| DF/ZOO/205/1 | 'Letters and report': official letters and reports to Trustees of J G Children, 1828-1840 | |