Europe
52 Archivistische beschrijving results for Europe
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.
Black and white and colour photographs, mainly of various zoos, including Frankfurt, Berlin, Jersey, Antwerp, Stuttgart, Bristol, Paignton, Thoiry, Ueno (Tokyo) and Singapore, as well as images of herpetological specimens in captivity
ZBAA: Medal commemorating 125 years of the Jardim Zoológico, Lisbon, Portugal, 2009, with the words "Lisboa Jardim Zoológico Portugal, 125 anos, 1884-2009", in presentation box. Donated by Mr Anthony Sheridan, FZS, January 2011
Also medals commemorating anniversaries of Moscow Zoo, Jahre Tierpark Berlin, Kaunas Zoo and Zoologischer Garten Dresden
Early papers regarding the Aquarium at London Zoo, including correspondence, price lists, reports on visits to Hamburg, Berlin, Brussels and Dresden
Contract between ZSL and the Department for International Development
Letter from J Leigh to William Turner Bennett to say that 'Capt Bowles wants you to inform him by what means you will have a seal' on board a ship in Liverpool forwarded to the Gardens of the Zoological Society of London. Also enquires as to whether a mistake has been made as to Goss's wages
Letter from Croizet bird dealers to Philip Lutley Sclater