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

Arlès-Dufour & Co., Lyon; Arlès-Dufour & Co., Marseilles; Albion Shipping Co.; J.W. Abraham; Arbuthnot, Latham & Co.; Ammon, Caspari & Co.; W.K. Arbuthnot; Robert Anderson; J.B. Astor; Beith, Stevenson & Co.; Robert Benson & Co.; Brown & Co.; Bank of Australasia; David Brown; Buchanan, Wignall & Co.; William Burchell Jnr; William Birch Jnr; Captain Richard H. Brown; Victor Berchut; C.E. Broadhurst; British & Oriental Ship Coating Co.; Anna M. Rangel Baptista; John Charles Bowring; Thomas Bell; Helen Blake; Cutler, Palmer & Co.; James Chabot & Co.; Cargills, Joachim & Co.; Marie Chase; Adolphe Collin; Chapuisat & Milsom; George Duddell; Elizabeth Catherine Day; Walter George Dickson M.D.; Archibald Orr Ewing & Co.; Francis Helme Firth; Gellatley, Hankey, Sewell & Co.; George Gibson & Co.; Grindlay & Co.; James Galbraith; Archdeacon Gray; Gray, Dawes & Co.; Howland & Aspinwall; Horrockses, Miller & Co.; Thomas & James Harrison; Thomas Newman Hunt; Robert Hinde; Captain Robert Hodge; Robert Jardine; Mary Johnston; Koenigsberg Commercial Association; Kraeutler & Miéville; John R. Kelso; Henry Kendall & Sons; Henry S. King & Co.; R. Keats; Trustees of John Lamont; London & Hanseatic Bank; Peter George Laurie; Matheson & Co.; Samuel Mendel; McGregor, Gow & Co.; Merchant Banking Co.; James Macandrew; H.C. McDonald & Co.; James MacCunn & Co.; John T. Mounsey; Melwish Sons & Co.; Emil Friedrich Meyer & Co.; Executors of Malcolm Anderson Macleod; Macondry & Co.; National Bank of New Zealand; Nelson, Donkin & Co.; C.M. Norwood & Co.; Oriental Bank Corporation; Parrott & Co.; Sir John Pirie Bart & Co.; William Perry; William Pierce & Co.; Charles Percival; Louisa Quekett; Andrew Rome & Co.; W.H. Ross & Co.; Robertson & Co.; Henry Rhodes & Co.; Seater, White & Co.; Stewart, Thompson & Co.; Sandbach, Tinne & Co.; Smith, Fleming & Co.; John Siltzer & Co.; Turing & Co.; Thomas Thompson; J. Thomson, T. Bonar & Co.; W.O. Taylor; Teighe & Smith; Captain William Thom; Union Bank of Australia; Joseph Vettori; John Warrack & Co.; Richard Woosnam; John Williams; Alexander Wilson; Robert Grant Webster; James Whittall; Matilda White; and Warre Brothers.