Correspondence between Philadelphia Zoo and Geoffrey Marr Vevers regarding a shipment of brine shrimp eggs for the Zoological Society of London
Letters from Sir Charles Lyell to Philip Lutley Sclater regarding the donations of a text regarding Charles Darwin to the Library of the Zoological Society of London, a list of books to be purchased for the Library, the foundation of a zoological society in Boston, Massachusetts, and a request from keepers to read books on natural history and the animals in their care
Correspondence with James M Kittleman regarding a vacancy for an Executive Director at the Chicago Zoological Park
Letters from Charles Kingsley to Philip Lutley Sclater regarding naturalists in Denver, Colorado, specimens for the Zoological Society of London, and the paper of the ex-governor of Trinidad
Correspondence between James & Hodder and Geoffrey Marr Vevers regarding the collection of mammals and birds from the Philadelphia Zoo which arrived on the S.S.Sofie Bakke for the Zoological Society of London
Letters from William Henry Huxley to Philip Lutley Sclater regarding alligators of North America and other matters
Correspondence with W P Heuschele, Veterinarian at San Diego Zoological Garden regarding the minutes of a meeting of the Research Council of the Biological Research Institute
Letter from J Van Denburgh of the California Academy of Sciences, regarding publications of Joan Procter and Mr Boulenger which she sent to him
Includes: memos from the Layout Committee; letters from Lubetkin to Huxley; costings; Contract with Tecton; copy of 'The Architect and Building News', June 1944; handwritten notes; specifications. Includes correspondence with Burnet, Tait and Lorne; and with Tecton. Also mentions other abandoned schemes by Tecton for Gibbon House, Children's Zoo, South Gate. Includes correspondence between Huxley and the Maharajah of Bhavnagar and J Ellerman about funding; with Sir Harry Boyd of the Home Office concerning Royal patronage. Correspondence with Zoo Directors in Chicago, Dresden, Stellingen about their elephant houses.