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 the shipment of 29 boxes of small live British mammals and birds to the Philadelphia Zoological Gardens

Correspondence between San Diego Zoo and Geoffrey Marr Vevers regarding shipments of animals from San Diego Zoo to the Zoological Society of London, including Rosy Boas, a California King Snake, Pacific Rattlesnakes, a Black Cobra, Adders, Slow Worms, Emus and a request from the Zoological Society of London for Sea Lions, also the transport of Hedgehogs and Wallabies from the Zoological Society of London to San Diego Zoo

Correspondence between Philadelphia Zoo and Geoffrey Marr Vevers regarding a shipment of brine shrimp eggs for the Zoological Society of London

Correspondence between the Colonial Office and George Soper Cansdale regarding fry of Tilapia Zillii to be despatched to Antigue, an Tilapia Mossambica and Trichogaster Pectoralis Regan from Malaya for the West Indies

Letter regarding an offer to supply the Zoological Society of London with Racoons and a Black Bear, and a request for America White Pelicans

Correspondence between Philadelphia Zoo and George Soper Cansdale regarding the importation of Salamanders for the Pathology Department of Ancoats Hospital

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.

Journal of voyages to the W Indies, S America, E Indies and China, Cape of Good Hope and St Helena, from 1823 to 1831, in the Barque Charles and H C Ship Berwickshire

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