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Woods, H
SEC/2/1/79 · File · 1832
Part of ZSL Secretaries

Letter from H Woods who says he spoke to Wombwell (a dealer in Commercial Road) about the kangaroo. He would be satisfied with the female and would give an equivalent. He had his eye on a bear in the corner on the left of the elephants. He encloses a drawing of the head of the bear but the den was too dark to see it distinctly

White, Dr J
SEC/11/1/86 · File · 1952
Part of ZSL Secretaries

Correspondence between Dr J Stanley White, Director of the Department of Clinical Investigation at Parke, Davis & Company Limited, and the Zoological Society of London regarding the treatment of the elephant Rusty, and the donation of Chloromycetin Palmitate

Urbain, Archille
SEC/10/1/27 · File · 1937
Part of ZSL Secretaries

Correspondence between Julian Sorell Huxley and Achille Urbain of the Parc Zoologique de Vincennes in Paris, regarding the construction of the new Elephant House at London Zoo

Thompson, E
SEC/10/1/26 · File · 1936
Part of ZSL Secretaries

Correspondence between E Thompson and Julian Sorell Huxley regarding Sir Stanley Reed, the Maharaja of Bhavnagar and the construction of the new Elephant House at London Zoo

Tait, Thomas
SEC/11/1/75 · Item · 1943
Part of ZSL Secretaries

Correspondence between Thomas Tait and the Zoological Society of London regarding the construction of the new Elephant House

St John, Spenser
SEC/7/18/3 · File · 1884
Part of ZSL Secretaries

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

Smith, David Seth-
SEC/10/1/22 · File · 1937
Part of ZSL Secretaries

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

Shum, Frederick
SEC/7/18/28 · Item · 1884
Part of ZSL Secretaries

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

Ridley, Jasper
SEC/10/1/18 · Item · 1939
Part of ZSL Secretaries

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

Rice and Son
SEC/10/1/17 · Item · 1939
Part of ZSL Secretaries

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