Negatives of a marmoset, tamarin and gibbon, and of extended injection instrument
Correspondence between Captain C Millsom and Geoffrey Marr Vevers regarding the offer of a pet Hulak Gibbon from Burma to the Zoological Society of London
Letter from William Martin, Secretary of the Bristol and Clifton Zoological Gardens, to John Barlow regarding a specimen they held of an Active Gibbon which they offered for sale to the Zoological Society of London
Letter to Major Albert Pam regarding plans and designs for the Gibbon House and a letter from Sandringham
Letter to Julian Huxley regarding plans and designs for the Gibbon House
Correspondence with Viscount Head regarding the transport of a Gibbon to Lagos, and Chimpanzees and Swans to Kuala Lumpur
Plan showing the proposed landscaping of the Gibbons Cage at ZSL London Zoo
Papers regarding the Gibbons Cage at ZSL London Zoo
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 with Phra Abhaivonge regarding the purchase of animals by the Zoological Society of London, including a pair of Pileated Gibbons, Peacock Pheasants and Spectacled Langurs