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Paper relating to Julian Sorell Huxley's appointment as Secretary of the Zoological Society of London, including letters from Peter Chalmers Mitchell, questions to be put to candidates by the President at a meeting of the Council and a draft report of the Secretaryship Committee

Huxley was elected Secretary of ZSL in 1935. By 1940 he had come into conflict with the ZSL Council and some of the Fellows. He resigned in August 1942, as he had associated himself with the 'Informal Committee' opposing the Council. The papers here are about this 'Huxley Controversy

Letters to Peter Chalmers Mitchell

Out-letter books of Peter Chalmers Mitchell

Letters to Julian Huxley

No meetings held between 25 July 1939 and 30 July 1947. Originally known as the Zootomical Committee (1865-1903), before being named the Prosectorial Committee (1903-1960. The Prosectorial Committee was later the Zoological Research Committee

Papers relating to the Veterinary and Medical Science Committee of the Zoological Society of London