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Statement of Claim from Eliza Adelaide Pocklington to Philip Lutley Sclater regarding an attack by an elephant at the Zoological Society of London

Note by the Secretary of the Zoological Society of London on the policy on elephants

Letter from Louis Prater to William Ogilby regarding lions, an elephant, and a giraffe available for sale to the Zoological Society of London

Correspondence between Julian Sorell Huxley and Stanley Reed regarding The Maharajah of Bhavnagar, plans for a new Elephant House at the London Zoological Gardens and a a request for a financial contribution from The Maharajah

Report on elephant enclosures, temperatures in various houses such as antelope and cattle sheds, possible overcrowding in bears' enclosures, inmates of cattle and deer sheds, the health of otters and coypus, numbers in the bird house and aviaries, bird house temperatures and the Three Island Pond

Letter from the building contractors Rice and Son, to Julian Sorell Huxley regarding the construction of the new Elephant House

Letter from Julian Sorell Huxley to Jasper Ridley regarding the plans for the new Elephant House and an approach to Lord Howard de Walden regarding a donation towards the construction

Letter from Frederick Shum to Philip Lutley Sclater regarding P T Barnum's agent offering ten thousand pounds for a four tusked elephant and whether would be wanted at the Gardens of the Zoological Society of London

Letters from David Seth-Smith to Julian Sorell Huxley regarding plans for the proposed new Elephant House and meetings of the Elephant House Committee

Letters from Spenser St John to Philip Lutley Sclater regarding P T Barnum exhibiting an elephant at the Zoological Society of London