Report by Peter Chalmers Mitchell on a visit to Brussels, Berlin and Dresden in December 1913 to examine new Aquaria

Correspondence with Dresden Zoo an invitation to visit London Zoo and Whipsnade, and back numbers of the Oryx journal

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.

ZBAA: Medal commemorating 125 years of the Jardim Zoológico, Lisbon, Portugal, 2009, with the words "Lisboa Jardim Zoológico Portugal, 125 anos, 1884-2009", in presentation box. Donated by Mr Anthony Sheridan, FZS, January 2011

Also medals commemorating anniversaries of Moscow Zoo, Jahre Tierpark Berlin, Kaunas Zoo and Zoologischer Garten Dresden

Early papers regarding the Aquarium at London Zoo, including correspondence, price lists, reports on visits to Hamburg, Berlin, Brussels and Dresden