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Letters to Fellows, 1958; Issue of Documents to Fellows, 1958; Application forms for Fellowship, 1959-1960; Revision of Bye-laws, 1958; Fellows - New bye-laws, 1958; Proposed changes in new Zoo bye-laws, 1959; Zoo - Bye-laws, 1959; New bye-laws, 1958-1959.

Zoo - Sunday Opening, 1957-1958.

Correspondence about elephant acquisitions. Including about an Indian elephant London Film Productions intended to present to ZSL, but which was eventually cancelled.

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.

It was proposed in the setting up of ZSL that there would be a museum for zoological specimens, and items began being collected c.1827 including a collection of Sumatran specimens donated by Lady Sophia Raffles, widow of ZSL founder Sir Stamford Raffles. The museum was housed firstly within our office building at 33 Bruton Street in central London, and charged entry for people to visit. Many specimens were donated by fellows, John Gould donated his collection of Himalayan birds in 1831 to the museum, for example. The museum proved very popular, and grew at such a rate that it was one of the reasons for moving office to Leicester square. It was decided that the Society either needed to purchase a dedicated building for it - or to disperse the collection. ZSL Council chose the latter, and by 1855 the collection had been dispersed to various other collections including the British Museum (Natural History) and Norwich Museum.

Records relating to the fellowship and membership of ZSL

General plan of ZSL London Zoo

List of houses and stations at ZSL London Zoo, placed in relative order of importance taking 100% as the basic rate

Records relating to ZSL's 125th anniversary celebrations and coronation