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.
Letters from L M Flewin to the Food and Agriculture Division in Germany regarding the post mortem results of Racoons taken from Hanover Zoo, and a post mortem certificate for a Wild Horse
Letter from Sheffield Airey Neave to the Rt Hon H B Hynd of the Control Office for Germany and Austria regarding an instalment of animals sent to the Zoological Society from Germany
Correspondence between L Rule and George Soper Cansdale regarding the return of animal from the Zoological Society of London to Germany
Colour negatives of views of Stuttgart, Frankfurt, Jakarta and Bogor Zoos
Report by E G Boulenger on a a visit to Vienna, Berlin and Amsterdam with the special object of visiting the Biologische Versuchsanstalt in Vienna and the Aquarium in Berlin
Correspondence with E H Tong regarding the exchange of Red-breasted Geese, and the measurements of the Elephant called 'Carla' which was being returned to Hanover
Letter from N Funck of the Zoological Gardens in Cologne, to Philip Lutley Sclater
Report by Peter Chalmers Mitchell on a visit to Brussels, Berlin and Dresden in December 1913 to examine new Aquaria
David Seth Smith attended, as delegate of the Zoological Society and the Society for the Preservation of the Fauna of the Empire, the Meeting of the European Continental Section of the International Committee for Bird Preservation held in Vienna