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Letters from Maud Minchin to Peter Chalmers Mitchell regarding her pension and a request to attend a meeting of the Committee of Publication. Also a letter from F M Burton regarding the late F M Minchin and a certificate for a funding loan

Letters from Sewallis Edward Shirley, 10th Earl Ferrers, to Peter Chalmers Mitchell regarding his gift of a Wild Bull to the Zoological Society of London and his request that no progeny of the bull was to leave the Gardens

Letter from Cuthbert Edward Swan to Peter Chalmers Mitchell regarding his subscription to the Zoological Society of London

Correspondence with the Dictionary of National Biography regarding a portrait of Sir Peter Chalmers Mitchell by William Nicholson

Letters and memos to Whipsnade

Peter Chalmers Mitchell was a Scottish zoologist, and ZSL Secretary from 1903-1935. He was responsible for founding Whipsnade Zoo.

Includes two typewritten manuscripts: 'Russia 1937' by Anthony Vevers; 'Emergence in Science and Politics' by Peter Chalmers Mitchell c 1938.

Memorandum by the Secretary for consideration at Council on the re-planning of the Gardens of the Zoological Society of London

Special Garden Committee memorandum from the Secretary regarding suggested accommodation for animals