Correspondence regarding amendments to the Charter and Byelaws, British Waterways Board, Whipsnade and a copy of Transfer of Land at Whipsnade in 1952
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.
Includes original claims, replies, internal memoranda, evidence from ZSL staff, and correspondence with insurance brokers
Third party claims for accidents at London Zoo and Whipsnade. These are letters from visitors describing the accident to themselves or their clothes, caused by animals or infrastructure
Correspondence with Dr Annie Porter regarding her Silver Medal presentation and citation about her career which was read at the Ordinary General Meeting on 21 January 1953
Correspondence with Dr Marie Stopes regarding the film The Living Desert
H Cobden-Turner, 1957-1959; Colonel Finch, 1958-1959; EPF Field, 1958; Seccombe Hetts, 1957; Misc, 1957-1959; Correspondence relating to Peterborough Daily Telegraph article, 1958; Correspondence between 'rebel' Fellows, 1958-1959; Correspondence with Mr Raymond Russell and misc., 1957-1959.
Zoological Society of LondonCorrespondence with G McGregor Craig of Messrs G T Riches and Co Ltd regarding his support during a meeting of the Zoological Society of London
Extract from verbatim report given at the Ordinary General Meeting regarding the career of Herbert Frederick Vinall, with correspondence