There is an index of recipients at the start of the volume containing the following entries:

Arlès-Dufour & Co.; Anderson, Anderson & Co.; J.B. Astor; Thomas Bilbe & Co.; Robert Barbour & Brother; Captain Richard H. Brown; Buchanan, Wignall & Co.; Brown & Co.; Bank of New Zealand; London Joint Stock Bank; J. Burchell Jnr; Captain Robert B. Baker; Robert Blake Byass & Co.; Thomas Bell; Thomas Bell M.D.; Robert Benson & Co.; Commercial Bank of Scotland; J. Thomson, T. Bonar & Co.; William Blackwood & Sons; Union Bank of Australia; N. Berchut; Alexander Collie & Co.; J.F. Crockett; Adolphe Collin; Cutler, Palmer & Co.; Chalmers, Guthrie & Co.; Colombo & Co.; D'Auvergne de Ste Croix; Crawford, Colvin & Co.; Marie Chase; C. Chapuisat; Captain Domenico Copello; Cotesworth & Powell; G. Croshaw & Co.; Deverill & Titterton; Elizabeth Catherine Day; Walter George Dickson M.D.; Dickson & Bayly; P. Duncan; Archibald Orr Ewing & Co.; Executors of Malcolm Anderson Macleod; Abijah Pond Everett; H. Ellis & Sons; Francis Helme Firth; C. Frost; Frühling & Göschen; Allan C. Gow & Co.; George Grigs & Co.; G. Gibson & Co.; Francisco Garcia Gaston; Grindlay & Co.; J. & R. Grant; Galbraith, Stringer & Pembroke & Co.; George N. Gardiner & Co.; Horrockses, Miller & Co.; Howland & Aspinwall; Captain Robert Hodge; Richard Farr Hamilton; Eldred Halton; Francis George Horne; Hargrove, Fergusson & Jackson; T. & J. Harrison; J. Hemsworth; Thomas Newman Hunt; Janion, Rhodes & Co.; Robert Jardine; Robert C. Janion; Miles Prendergast Jukes; J. & C. White & Co.; John R. Kelso; Koenigsberg Commercial Association; Henry S. King & Co.; Kraeutler & Miéville; Lloyd Italiano. The Società di Navigazione a Vapore; Laidlaw & Gate; Lucien Laulhé; Estate of John Lamont (Robert Jardine & Hugh M. Matheson, Trustees); Samuel Mendel; Matheson & Co.; James Macandrew; Merchant Banking Co.; Murdoch's Nephews; G.L. Monro & Co.; John Marquand; Manning & Co.; Nelson, Donkin & Co.; Sir John Pirie Bart & Co.; Parrott & Co.; A. Pring; John Parrott; Matilda Jane Poole; Charles Perceval; Louisa Quekett; Redfern, Alexander & Co.; Floriano Antonio Rangel; Rowsell & Son; Alexander Stephen & Sons; Thomas Skinner & Co.; F.A. Schaeffer & Co.; Captain T. Smith; Sandbach, Tinne & Co.; Suse & Sibeth; Ross, Scolfield & Co.; George Shenton; Teighe & Smith; R.T. Turnbull & Co.; William Henry Tindall; Captain William Thom; Turing & Co.; Temperley's, Carter & Darke; Nicanor Tejerina; George D. Tyser; Valdeavellano & Co.; Joseph Vettori; J. Williams; Richard Woosnam; Robert Grant Webster; Matilda White; and Warre Brothers.