Correspondence between the General Steam Navigation Company and Geoffrey Marr Vevers regarding the transfer of animals from the Zoological Gardens in Hanover and the Zoological Society of London

Letter from N Funck of the Zoological Gardens in Cologne, to Philip Lutley Sclater

Letter from Sheffield Airey Neave to the Rt Hon H B Hynd of the Control Office for Germany and Austria regarding an instalment of animals sent to the Zoological Society from Germany

Correspondence with Dresden Zoo an invitation to visit London Zoo and Whipsnade, and back numbers of the Oryx journal

Report by Peter Chalmers Mitchell on a visit to Brussels, Berlin and Dresden in December 1913 to examine new Aquaria

Report by E G Boulenger on a a visit to Vienna, Berlin and Amsterdam with the special object of visiting the Biologische Versuchsanstalt in Vienna and the Aquarium in Berlin

David Seth Smith attended, as delegate of the Zoological Society and the Society for the Preservation of the Fauna of the Empire, the Meeting of the European Continental Section of the International Committee for Bird Preservation held in Vienna

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.

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.