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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.

Correspondence between the Zoological Society of London and Buckingham Palace on topics such as admission tickets for the Gardens at Regent's Park and Whipsnade Park, the election of Vice-Presidents at the Zoological Society of London, the naming of the Snowdon Aviary, reports of the Annual General Meeting and Council meetings and luncheons for the Duke of Edinburgh

Concerning the new plans by Casson Conder and partners

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

By Tecton. Includes related correspondence and memos.

2 volumes denoting extraordinary expenditure at London and Whipsnade Zoos, between 1864 and 1939. They detail yearly spending on enclosures and buildings, some costs of animals.

Architect's fees and costs of the Aviary