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Statement by Peter Chalmers Mitchell for the consideration of the Council in connection with proposed future improvements to the Gardens, including new refreshment rooms, the Aquarium and general garden improvements

Volume listing holders of ivory tickets to both the Zoo and Aquarium, between 1897 and 1949. List seems not complete. Ivory tickets were issued as yearly entrances passes into the Zoo/Aquarium and would be handed over/shown at the gate in the same way

Secretary of State and Home Department

March 24 1877

Your Royal Highness

I am indeed most obliged to you for your very kind present. It is very beautiful and quite apropos to the work I like so much. I shall value it very much and am deeply grateful to you for it. I am looking forward some day next month to show you over the Brighton Aquarium I shall be free after 10 April. I have now [got?] to go to South Wales and Devonshire on Inspection duty I have not forgotten the Cray fish and the Swans.

Yours most obliged

Frank Buckland

Letter from the Secretary to Joseph Temperley regarding tickets to enter the Aquarium

Letter from the Zoological Society of London to Joao de Freitas Martins regarding his offer to supervise the shipping of consignments of Madeira fish to the Aquarium

Memo on the subject of Dr Allen's letter dated July 7th 1930 by the Director of the Aquarium

Memorandum on a proposed combined admission charge for entrance to the Aquarium and Reptile House

Proposal for a cinema as an important agency of a broad educational policy as well as a source of revenue. When the Mappin Terraces were first constructed in 1913, it was originally proposed to build a cinema in the space below them. However the Aquarium was substituted

Notes by Julian Huxley on visits to the Zoological Gardens at New York (Bronx Park), Philadelphia, Washington DC, Paris (Vincennes), Hamburg, Berlin, Munich (Hellabrunn) and Frankfort, also the Aquarium at Chicago

Draft notes by Julian Huxley on visits to the Zoological Gardens at New York (Bronx Park), Philadelphia, Washington DC, Paris (Vincennes), Hamburg, Berlin, Munich (Hellabrunn) and Frankfort, also the Aquarium at Chicago