Early papers regarding the Aquarium at London Zoo, including correspondence, price lists, reports on visits to Hamburg, Berlin, Brussels and Dresden
CUR/2/2
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File
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1913-1930
Part of Curators and Keepers
ARC/7/1
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File
Part of Architecture and buildings
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.
SEC/13/1/39
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File
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1960
Part of ZSL Secretaries
Correspondence with Dresden Zoo an invitation to visit London Zoo and Whipsnade, and back numbers of the Oryx journal