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Letters of congratulations
SEC/10/1/33 · File · 1930-1938
Part of ZSL Secretaries

Letters of congratulations to zoological gardens and learned institutions from the Zoological Society of London

Julian Huxley
SEC/10 · Series · 1930-1975
Part of ZSL Secretaries

Julian Sorell Huxley was an English evolutionary biologist, eugenicist and internationalist. He was ZSL Secretary from 1935-1942, in which time he introduced Pet's corner (the children's zoo) and Zoo Magazine.

SEC/10/3 · Sub-series · 1934
Part of ZSL Secretaries

Paper relating to Julian Sorell Huxley's appointment as Secretary of the Zoological Society of London, including letters from Peter Chalmers Mitchell, questions to be put to candidates by the President at a meeting of the Council and a draft report of the Secretaryship Committee

SEC/9/2/28/6 · Item · 7 May 1935
Part of ZSL Secretaries

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

SEC/9/2/28/6 · Item · 7 May 1935
Part of ZSL Secretaries

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

Burnet, Tait and Lorne
SEC/10/1/1 · File · 1936-1937
Part of ZSL Secretaries

Correspondence between Burnet, Tait and Lorne and Julian Sorell Huxley regarding proposed new elephant and rhinoceros houses and paddocks at the Zoological Society of London, and the proposed Tusker Elephant House at Whipsnade Zoo. Also minutes of the Whipsnade Committee 9th December 1936, and an extract from a memo on accommodation for catering staff at Whipsnade (known then as the House of Pleasant Bread)