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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

Correspondence between Julian Sorell Huxley and Tecton Group regarding the construction of the new Elephant House

Papers regarding the presentation of the RIBA Architecture Award Elephant and Rhinoceros Pavilion

Correspondence between Julian Sorell Huxley and Stanley Reed regarding The Maharajah of Bhavnagar, plans for a new Elephant House at the London Zoological Gardens and a a request for a financial contribution from The Maharajah

Correspondence between the Royal Institute of British Architects and Julian Sorell Huxley regarding a list of Rice contracts

Letters from David Seth-Smith to Julian Sorell Huxley regarding plans for the proposed new Elephant House and meetings of the Elephant House Committee