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Record relating to the Zoological Society of London Pension Fund

Includes: Return of the number of Deaths and Resignations from 1840 to 1848; List of the Fellows who have become Defaulters (1840-1847), Return of the total number of Resignations in each year (1825-1849); Return of the number of Fellows elected after Dec 31 1832 and paying £3, 1849; Blank form letter to proposers of defaulters, undated; 1876 Comparative Statement of Elections, Deaths, Resignations and Removals during the past Ten years, annotated 1877; etc 

Books filled in daily, listing the arrivals and departures, births and deaths of animals at London Zoo and Whipsnade. Other details mentioned in some of the books are numbers of visitors and money taken, particular visitors, keepers absent, unwell animals, building works, temperatures in the animal houses, weather. Also referred to as 'day books'.