Plan showing the repositioning of kiosks at the Main Gate of ZSL London Zoo
Contract documents, specifications and plans for the Tropical Bird House, ZSL London Zoo
Plan showing the details of the base and base wall of the Raven's Cage at London Zoo
Plans and drawings of the Baikal Seal Pond at ZSL London Zoo
Plans for new laboratories at London Zoo
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
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
Proposal for a new Aquarium and coral reef at London Zoo
Minutes of the Layout Committee