Correspondence between Chicago Zoo and Geoffrey Marr Vevers regarding a request for Hedgehogs and other animals at Chicago Zoo, and the exchange of animals with the Zoological Society of London

Includes: memos from the Layout Committee; letters from Lubetkin to Huxley; costings; Contract with Tecton; copy of 'The Architect and Building News', June 1944; handwritten notes; specifications. Includes correspondence with Burnet, Tait and Lorne; and with Tecton. Also mentions other abandoned schemes by Tecton for Gibbon House, Children's Zoo, South Gate. Includes correspondence between Huxley and the Maharajah of Bhavnagar and J Ellerman about funding; with Sir Harry Boyd of the Home Office concerning Royal patronage. Correspondence with Zoo Directors in Chicago, Dresden, Stellingen about their elephant houses.

Letter regarding an extract from a letter received from Robert Bean, Director of the Chicago Zoological Park, regarding several gorillas that were taken to the United States

Correspondence with James M Kittleman regarding a vacancy for an Executive Director at the Chicago Zoological Park

Notes by Julian Huxley on visits to the Zoological Gardens at New York (Bronx Park), Philadelphia, Washington DC, Paris (Vincennes), Hamburg, Berlin, Munich (Hellabrunn) and Frankfort, also the Aquarium at Chicago

Draft notes by Julian Huxley on visits to the Zoological Gardens at New York (Bronx Park), Philadelphia, Washington DC, Paris (Vincennes), Hamburg, Berlin, Munich (Hellabrunn) and Frankfort, also the Aquarium at Chicago

Edward George Boulenger spent three weeks in America where he visited and studied the aquaria, zoological parks and museums in New York and Chicago

List of American zoos by A Lindsay; Report of a visit to New York and Chicago (1936); 'Notes on visits to some foreign zoos, 1934 and 1935' by Huxley (covering New York Bronx, Philadelphia, Washington, Paris Vincennes, Hamburg, Berlin, Munich Hellabrun, & Frankfurt); extract from report on the British Colonial Exhibit, World's Fair, New York, 1939; Report on visit to Austria and Germany by D Seth Smith (c1937); Report on a visit to the Zoological Gardens at Antwerp, Rotterdam and Amsterdam (1935); Report on a visit to France (1938); letter from Chalmers Mitchell to the Directors of Zoological Gardens in Germany, introducing Huxley, 1935; handwritten notes on zoos; notebook; 'La Reproduction des Animaux Sauvages en Captivite' by A Urbain; Report on visit to Brookfield Zoo (1940); guide to Internationalen Jagdaustellung, Berlin, 1937.