Plan and section drawings relating to the remodelling of the Giraffe House, London Zoo. Some hand annotations. Architect/engin
Plan of London Zoo, dated July 1994. Photocopy. Architect/engineer/designer: Wharmby Architects
Correspondence between the Zoological Society of London and Buckingham Palace on topics such as admission tickets for the Gardens at Regent's Park and Whipsnade Park, the election of Vice-Presidents at the Zoological Society of London, the naming of the Snowdon Aviary, reports of the Annual General Meeting and Council meetings and luncheons for the Duke of Edinburgh
Correspondence with foreign royalty such as Prince Ranier of Monaco, Prince and Princess Hitachi of Japan, King Hussein of Jordan, King Peter II and Queen Salote of Tonga
Papers relating to a visit by the Emperor of Japan to the Zoological Society of London
Plans dated 10 March 1930 until 11 May 1934, pasted into a scrapbook. Also includes first Whipsnade regulations
List of American zoos by A Lindsay; Report of a visit to New York and Chicago (1936); 'Notes on visits to some foreign zoos, 1934 and 1935' by Huxley (covering New York Bronx, Philadelphia, Washington, Paris Vincennes, Hamburg, Berlin, Munich Hellabrun, & Frankfurt); extract from report on the British Colonial Exhibit, World's Fair, New York, 1939; Report on visit to Austria and Germany by D Seth Smith (c1937); Report on a visit to the Zoological Gardens at Antwerp, Rotterdam and Amsterdam (1935); Report on a visit to France (1938); letter from Chalmers Mitchell to the Directors of Zoological Gardens in Germany, introducing Huxley, 1935; handwritten notes on zoos; notebook; 'La Reproduction des Animaux Sauvages en Captivite' by A Urbain; Report on visit to Brookfield Zoo (1940); guide to Internationalen Jagdaustellung, Berlin, 1937.
Correspondence with Geoffrey Marr Vevers regarding an investigation into an outbreak of food poisoning, a notice to members of the staff authorised to use the Fellows' restaurant, an investigation into the amount of money in the till in the cafeteria, the Term Licence in respect of the Restaurant of the Zoological Gardens, and Regent's Park Catering Department Monopoly Value 1948,