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Books filled in daily, listing the arrivals and departures, births and deaths of animals at London Zoo and Whipsnade. Other details mentioned in some of the books are numbers of visitors and money taken, particular visitors, keepers absent, unwell animals, building works, temperatures in the animal houses, weather. Also referred to as 'day books'.

Newspaper clipping from the Daily Telegraph titled 'London Zoo Deficit for Second Year', with draft letter of response

Letter from Geoffrey Marr Vevers to the Ministry of Labour and National Service to request a disabled persons Green Card for P R Dalby due to injuries sustained during the war

Letter from George Mifflin Dallas to Philip Lutley Sclater regarding the proposal for a Zoological and Botanical garden in Central Park, New York

Correspondence with C J G Dalton, Controller of the Zoological Society of London, regarding staff wages, Ordinary General Meetings, newsletters, meeting notes, liaison letters, and other administrative matters of the Zoological Society of London

Records relating to damages caused by bomb damage and enemy action

Letter from Edmund Robert Daniell to Nicholas Aylward Vigors regarding the Royal Institution of Great Britain's publication of a journal devoted to science and the arts

Report on dark coloured trout by the Parasitologist, Pathologist and President of the Zoological Society of London

Letters to PL Sclater asking him to correct the bird names in Darwin's new book, 'Descent of Man'.

Plan showing the dates of buildings standing in June 1976