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Correspondence between Burnet, Tait and Lorne and Julian Sorell Huxley regarding proposed new elephant and rhinoceros houses and paddocks at the Zoological Society of London, and the proposed Tusker Elephant House at Whipsnade Zoo. Also minutes of the Whipsnade Committee 9th December 1936, and an extract from a memo on accommodation for catering staff at Whipsnade (known then as the House of Pleasant Bread)

Letters from Kenneth Clark of the National Gallery, to Julian Sorell Huxley regarding John Driberg and Lubetkin's plans for the Elephant House at the the Zoological Society of London

Detailed organisation and arrangements proposed for Pets' Corner at the Zoological Society of London

Report on proposed heating in the Elephant House

Papers on the proposed new Elephant House

Correspondence between Hans Heck and Julian Sorell Huxley regarding the construction of a new Elephant House at the Zoological Society of London

Letter to Julian Huxley with the names and details of staff to be evacuated to Whipsnade Zoo

Correspondence between John Spedan Lewis, of the John Lewis Partnership, and Julian Sorell Huxley regarding the design and construction of a new Elephant and Rhinoceros House at the Zoological Society of London

Memorandum on a proposed combined admission charge for entrance to the Aquarium and Reptile House

Proposal for a cinema as an important agency of a broad educational policy as well as a source of revenue. When the Mappin Terraces were first constructed in 1913, it was originally proposed to build a cinema in the space below them. However the Aquarium was substituted