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ZBAA: Medal commemorating 125 years of the Jardim Zoológico, Lisbon, Portugal, 2009, with the words "Lisboa Jardim Zoológico Portugal, 125 anos, 1884-2009", in presentation box. Donated by Mr Anthony Sheridan, FZS, January 2011

Also medals commemorating anniversaries of Moscow Zoo, Jahre Tierpark Berlin, Kaunas Zoo and Zoologischer Garten Dresden

Early papers regarding the Aquarium at London Zoo, including correspondence, price lists, reports on visits to Hamburg, Berlin, Brussels and Dresden

Correspondence with Dresden Zoo an invitation to visit London Zoo and Whipsnade, and back numbers of the Oryx journal

Correspondence between the General Steam Navigation Company and Geoffrey Marr Vevers regarding the transfer of animals from the Zoological Gardens in Hanover and the Zoological Society of London

Correspondence between E H Tong and George Soper Cansdale regarding matters at Whipsnade, including causes of deaths of animals, animal record cards, the Canadian Department of Mines and Resources, the acquisition of animals, and animals on deposit from Germany

Correspondence between the Control Commission for Germany and George Soper Cansdale regarding the death of an Ostrich on deposit from Hamburg, and a question as to whether or not the Zoological Society of London wished to return the animals on deposit from Germany before the end of the agreed period of loan, i.e. 1950

List of American zoos by A Lindsay; Report of a visit to New York and Chicago (1936); 'Notes on visits to some foreign zoos, 1934 and 1935' by Huxley (covering New York Bronx, Philadelphia, Washington, Paris Vincennes, Hamburg, Berlin, Munich Hellabrun, & Frankfurt); extract from report on the British Colonial Exhibit, World's Fair, New York, 1939; Report on visit to Austria and Germany by D Seth Smith (c1937); Report on a visit to the Zoological Gardens at Antwerp, Rotterdam and Amsterdam (1935); Report on a visit to France (1938); letter from Chalmers Mitchell to the Directors of Zoological Gardens in Germany, introducing Huxley, 1935; handwritten notes on zoos; notebook; 'La Reproduction des Animaux Sauvages en Captivite' by A Urbain; Report on visit to Brookfield Zoo (1940); guide to Internationalen Jagdaustellung, Berlin, 1937.