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Council is the governing body of the Zoological Society of London. It is made up of three elected Officers - the President, Secretary and Treasurer – and twelve elected members. Council members are the Trustees

Papers relating to changes in the ZSL Charter and Bylaws. The majority of these papers are on the controversy caused by the intention to open London Zoo to the public on Sunday mornings, formerly the preserve of ZSL Fellows. A group of Fellows formed the 'FZS Committee', under the Chairmanship of Mr RJ Knowles, to fight ZSL Council. The changes in the Bylaws were voted on and approved by the Fellowship, but this was then challenged by Knowles who took ZSL to the High Court and won. Knowles finally lost at the Court of Appeal. Three years later ZSL was granted a new Charter and Bylaws.

Papers and photographs of a Zoological Society of London reception held at Buckingham Palace

Papers and leaflets for Zoo Nights 2008 at ZSL Whipsnade Zoo

Papers and leaflets for Zoo Nights 2008 at ZSL London Zoo

Records relating to the proposed closure of London and Whipsnade Zoos in the 1990s

Zoo - Sunday Opening, 1957-1958.

Papers regarding the Whales and Whaling Exhibition, an exhibition of specimens and photographs illustrating the natural history of whales and the history of the whaling industry

3 visitor books spanning the following years: 1913-1925, 1947 and 1925-1936, 1944-1957. These books don't have any indictation of where exactly they were kept, although the main office or Zoo reception seems likely.