Zoo architecture
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Correspondence, plans and minutes of meetings of the Nuffield Institute of Comparative Medicine
Engineers report on the state of the well and supply of water in the Gardens of the Zoological Society of London
Remarks by Abraham Dee Bartlett on Mr Gambier Bolton's paper about suggested improvements at the Gardens of the Zoological Society of London
Letters from Decimus Burton to Edward Turner Bennett regarding his brother's giraffe, the location of the parrot cage, drawings of the museum, the risk of fires, and the meeting of the creditors of the Colosseum
2 large prints of the survey of the old lion house, originally designed by Antony Salvin Jr (1875-7) which was replaced by the New Lion Terraces in 1976
Licences and plans of proposed London Zoo buildings, many of which were temporary structures, or not eventually built. Includes: large map of London Zoo in 1911 with position of proposed shelter marked, and plans of shelter, 1914; plans of proposed new aviary, 1906; plan of temporary shelters for HM The King's Indian Collection, 1912; plan of Proposed Wood & Iron Addition to the Prosector's Building, 1904; layout of Poultry Culture Exhibition, 1917; fire certificate Tea Pavilion Mappin Terraces, 1914; fire certificate Main Offices, 1910; temporary buildings extension, 1934.
Plan, section and elevation drawings relating to the construction of the ZSL Main Offices (and Library) at Regent's Park, dated January 1909 to March 1910. Included are details of elements reused from Hanover Square. Alterations to Library, 1964-1967. Some hand annotations and doodles. Architect/engineer/designer: J Belcher, Architect; Werner, Pfleiderer & Perkins Ltd, Engineers; J Jeffreys & Co, Heating and Ventilation Engineers; A Smith & Stevens, Lift Engineers.