Plan showing the repositioning of kiosks at the Main Gate of ZSL London Zoo
Contract documents, specifications and plans for the Tropical Bird House, ZSL London Zoo
Plan showing the details of the base and base wall of the Raven's Cage at London Zoo
Plans and drawings of the Baikal Seal Pond at ZSL London Zoo
Plans for new laboratories at London Zoo
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.
Concerning the new plans by Casson Conder and partners
Letters from Decimus Burton to Edward Turner Bennett regarding his brother's giraffe, the location of the parrot cage, drawings of the museum, the risk of fires, and the meeting of the creditors of the Colosseum
Correspondence between Julian Sorell Huxley and Tecton Group regarding the construction of the new Elephant House
Copies of letters regarding the drainage system of the gardens of the Zoological Society into Regent's Canal, with accompanying map