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Plan showing the details of the base and base wall of the Raven's Cage at London Zoo

Correspondence between Cox & Danks Ltd and Geoffrey Marr Vevers regarding orders of wire netting for Whipsnade Zoo

Correspondence, memorandums and papers regarding the Cotton Terraces and modernisation of the Giraffe House

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

Includes original claims, replies, internal memoranda, evidence from ZSL staff, and correspondence with insurance brokers

Third party claims for accidents at London Zoo and Whipsnade. These are letters from visitors describing the accident to themselves or their clothes, caused by animals or infrastructure

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.

Correspondence regarding amendments to the Charter and Byelaws, British Waterways Board, Whipsnade and a copy of Transfer of Land at Whipsnade in 1952

Correspondence between Alan Francis Brooke and Officers of the Zoological Society of London regarding minutes of the Secretaryship Committee, Scientific Meetings, action taken by the Society on the occasion of the death of the Sovereign, the opening of the new boiler house, Council Meetings, the Garden Party at Whipsnade and Ordinary General Meetings

Correspondence between Alan Francis Brooke and Officers of the Zoological Society of London regarding his recent illness, kind enquiries from the Council of the Zoological Society of London, and Dr Richard Clarke of Bristol Zoo