Correspondence between the Colonial Office and George Soper Cansdale regarding fry of Tilapia Zillii to be despatched to Antigue, an Tilapia Mossambica and Trichogaster Pectoralis Regan from Malaya for the West Indies
Letters from Nellie Louise Condon regarding the address of Methuen and Co publishers, and the Reptile Study Society of America
Letters from W A Conklin of the Department of Public Parks in New York, to Philip Lutley Sclater regarding the birth of an elephant at a circus in Philadelphia
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.
Letter from J Van Denburgh of the California Academy of Sciences, regarding publications of Joan Procter and Mr Boulenger which she sent to him
Letter regarding an extract from a letter received from Robert Bean, Director of the Chicago Zoological Park, regarding several gorillas that were taken to the United States
Letter regarding the shipment of 29 boxes of small live British mammals and birds to the Philadelphia Zoological Gardens
Correspondence with W P Heuschele, Veterinarian at San Diego Zoological Garden regarding the minutes of a meeting of the Research Council of the Biological Research Institute
Letters from William Henry Huxley to Philip Lutley Sclater regarding alligators of North America and other matters
Correspondence between James & Hodder and Geoffrey Marr Vevers regarding the collection of mammals and birds from the Philadelphia Zoo which arrived on the S.S.Sofie Bakke for the Zoological Society of London