Letters from John Thomas Barber Beaumont, County Fire Officer, discussing the effectiveness of heating in the Elephant House

Letters from Thomas Horsfield regarding his inability to meet Yarrell and Sabine, examination of his proofs, information of remarks of any kind on a species of elephant described in a passage he quotes from Bishop Heber's journal, Bennet's judgement on descriptions of several species, and an introduction to Mr Hugh Murrey who was was engaged in publication of an Account of China for the Edinburgh Cabinet Library in Zoology of China

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.

Concerning the new plans by Casson Conder and partners

Correspondence between Captain A T Ritchie and Geoffrey Marr Vevers regarding the return of Cecil Webb from Madagascar with an elephant that Mr Sharpe had for the Zoological Society of London at Ngobit, and any other animals available for shipment, also Webb's appointment as a whole-time salaried collection for the Society, with the title of Curator

Correspondence between Major H B Sharpe and Geoffrey Marr Vevers regarding arrangements for Cecil Stanley Webb to collect an elephant from Kenya for the Zoological Society of London

Correspondence between G Agarwala and Geoffrey Marr Vevers regarding the offer of an Indian Elephant to the Zoological Society of London

Correspondence between Columbo Zoo and Geoffrey Marr Vevers regarding the temporary deposit of a Leopard cub at Colombo Zoo before shipment to the Zoological Society of London, and the return of Simon, a Ceylon Zoo Elephant Keeper

Recommendation for Simon Pereira who brought over three Indian Elephants from Ceylon to the Zoological Society of London, and worked on the staff of the Society or six months