Papers on the proposed new Elephant House

Plan showing the emergency gates at the East Tunnel of ZSL London Zoo

Plans showing the diagrammatic layout of ZSL London Zoo

Plan showing the details of the base and base wall of the Raven's Cage at London Zoo

Plan showing the dates of buildings standing in June 1976

Correspondence, memorandums and papers regarding the Cotton Terraces and modernisation of the Giraffe House

List of costs of major building works undertaken by the Zoological Society of London in the last ten years

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.