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Papers regarding the authority of the council of the Zoological Society of London, including the legal opinion on the right of Council to grant pensions to staff and office; information regarding the illegality of Council's submitting its acts performed by virtue of the powers so conferred on them for confirmation or reversal by a General Meeting of the Fellows; Council's authority to appoint staff without reference to the Fellows; original authority for paying the Secretary; legal opinion regarding Dr Sclater's pension; authority to the Society to dispose of property and a codicil to Sir Peter Chalmers Mitchell's will

Letters from Bennet Burleigh to Peter Chalmers Mitchell regarding two young ostriches and a squirrel from Somaliland to be gifted to the Zoological Society of London

Includes two typewritten manuscripts: 'Russia 1937' by Anthony Vevers; 'Emergence in Science and Politics' by Peter Chalmers Mitchell c 1938.

Correspondence with the Dictionary of National Biography regarding a portrait of Sir Peter Chalmers Mitchell by William Nicholson

Letters and memos to Whipsnade

Letters from London County and Westminster Bank Ltd regarding the account of Harmer Wood and Mitchell

Letters from Maud Minchin to Peter Chalmers Mitchell regarding her pension and a request to attend a meeting of the Committee of Publication. Also a letter from F M Burton regarding the late F M Minchin and a certificate for a funding loan

Letters from Sir Peter Chalmers Mitchell to Joan Procter regarding a meeting of the Aquarium Committee and Procter's assistance in designing and making models of the rockwork decoration for the tanks

Correspondence between Maud Peavot and Peter Chalmers Mitchell regarding the Leslie Peavot Fund and an account book for the Fund. The Peavot Fund was held by the Secretary and Accountant of the Zoological Society and administered by them in consultation with Mrs Peavot, widow of the late H G J Peavot, the Society's Librarian, for the benefit of Leslie Peavot, his son