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The Tecton Group was a radical architectural group co-founded by Berthold Lubetkin, Francis Skinner, Denys Lasdun, Michael Dugdale, Anthony Chitty, Val Harding, Godfrey Samuel and Lindsay Drake in 1932, and disbanded in 1939. The group was one of the leaders in bringing continental modernism to Britain. The group's first commission was the 1932-1934 Gorilla House in London Zoo. After the complete of the gorilla house, the group designed a penguin pool for the zoo, which contained a unique double helix-shaped walkway without immediate supports for the penguins and a large swimming area. They also designed two other zoos: Whipsnade Zoo in Bedfordshire and Dudley Zoo in West Midlands

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Librarian of the Zoological Society of London. He was killed at the Battle of Arras during the First World War. The Society held and administered a fund for his son, Leslie Peavot (See SEC/9/1/21). He is remembered on the War Memorial at ZSL London Zoo. His wife was Secretary to Sir Peter Chalmers Mitchell and was temporary Librarian and Clerk of Publications (1961-1918)

Herbert Spencer was an English polymath active as a philosopher, psychologist, biologist, sociologist and anthropologist. Spencer originated the expression "survival of the fittest", which he coined in Principles of Biology after reading Charles Darwin's book On the Origin of Species

He joined the Zoological Society's Accounts Department in 1903. He served in the Army from 1917 to 1919 and after he was demobilised he was appointed Accountant at the Society. He later became the Society's Assistant Treasurer. He made a vast collection of photographs which were presented to the Society on his death