Report on the Aquarium to the War Emergency Committee

Report on the Aquarium to the War Emergency Committee

Volume titled as 'miscellanous record' which records income from guides (London, Whipsnade, and Aquarium guides) picture postcards, and rides.

Correspondence between Sir Arthur Landsborough Thomson and L Harrison Matthews regarding the XI International Ornithological Congress, Scientific Meetings, the Medical Research Council's Radiobiological Research Unit, the International Congress of Zoology, Council Meetings, Goliath Herons, reports of the Prosectorial Sub-Committee, meetings of the Publication Committee, the British Ornithologists' Union, the proposed advertisement for the Curatorship of the Aquarium, Corresponding Membership, and meetings of the Selection Committee and Planning Committee

Letters from Sir Peter Chalmers Mitchell to Joan Procter regarding a meeting of the Aquarium Committee and Procter's assistance in designing and making models of the rockwork decoration for the tanks

Plan, section and elevation drawings and blueprints relating to the construction of the Aquarium, London Zoo, dated July 1922 to August 1923. Also included are typewritten notes on the tank specifications; one sheet giving details for doors of the tea pavillion on the Mappin Terrace, dated February 1926. Some hand annotations and watercolour details added. Architect/engin

Plan, section and elevation drawings relating to the construction of the Aquarium, London Zoo, dated May 1922 to March 1923, and the remodelling, dated April to May 1956. Also included is a section blueprint of the proposed aquarium planned with the construction of the Mappin Terrace, dated April 1913. Some hand annotations and watercolour details added. Architect/engin eer/designer: Sir Alexander Gibb & Partners, Engineers; Belcher & Joass, Architects; CA & AW Haward Ltd, Engineers; ZSL Architects' Department. 

Estimate for the Formation of the Proposed Aquarium under the Mappin Terraces, 1922; Building Contract between ZSL and J Jarvis & Sons, 1922; notes on progress, 1923; details of costs, 1924; plan of new flue pipe in the Aquarium, undated.

Report of guide to indicative cost for the refurbishment of the Aquarium building at London Zoo for Zoo Operations Limited by Gardiner & Theobald

Statement by Peter Chalmers Mitchell for the consideration of the Council in connection with proposed future improvements to the Gardens, including new refreshment rooms, the Aquarium and general garden improvements