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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.

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

Records of ZSL's fundraising work (the fundraising function used to be called Development)

Invitations to events run by the Zoological Society of London and invitations to members of Zoological Society of London by external organisations

Document listing major events at the Zoological Society of London between 1957 and 1968

Files concerning ZSL and film and television. Includes letters from Huxley about a proposed cinema; correspondence about programmes such as "Zoo Time" with Desmond Morris; letters between Zuckerman and Bernstein and Forman of Granada TV

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.

Letters from ex-staff describing ZSL and London Zoo in the past when they worked there

Letters and papers relating to the position of President at Zoological Society of London

LCBA: Publication Committee - Editor's Folio, 1939-1948; LCBB: Correspondence, 1937-1946 [includes memos about ZSL Library]; LCBC: Publications Sub-Committee, 1961-1962; LCBD: Scientific Publications, 1961-1964

Correspondence concerning the ZSL publications 'Nomenclator Zoologicus', 'Zoo Magazine', 'Proceedings of ZSL', and 'Transactions of ZSL'