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

Proposal for a quarantine station for London Zoo at Gloucester Gate Garage

Notes for the Estimates Committee on Miss Sladden who was given accommodation in the Reptile House to continue her research on stick insects in return for helping with the rearing of reptiles and amphibia

Paper by Burgess Barnett on precautions against snake bites in the Reptile House

Reports on the suggested opening of the gardens to the public on Sundays, a report by the Assistant Treasurer on the suggestion that the Gardens might be open to the public by payment on Sundays, either for the whole day or part the day, and a report on a war time scheme for horticulture, agriculture, pig and poultry keeping at Whipsnade and Regent's Park

Report by the Garden Committee on the proposed exhibition in the Insect House of insects of economic importance, and the application of magnifying lenses for exhibiting small aquatic and other insects

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

Report on the Fresh-Water Hall, Sea-Water Hall and Tropical Hall of the Aquarium to the War Emergency Committee

Report on the number of visitors to the Aquarium

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)