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Correspondence between Geoffrey Marr Vevers and E P Gee regarding a Rhinoceros film he made on a visit to the Kaziranga Sanctuary in 1939

Correspondence between Carr Hartley and George Soper Cansdale regarding a special exhibit of a White Rhino at the Zoological Society of London

Correspondence between Raymond Hook and Geoffrey Marr Vevers regarding offers of animals including a Rock Hyrax, a pair of Rhinos, Reticulated Giraffes and Grevy's Zebras

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

Letter from Julian Sorell Huxley to Henry G Maurice regarding a Rhino and a Giraffe at the Gardens of the Zoological Society of London

Letters from Alexander Miller of the Zoological Gardens regarding a Chinese Pheasant which escaped and had been running in Park Street, Camden Town, an escape from the Dove House, the removal of an oak fence on the southern boundary, the health of a Rhinoceros, the Society's Cashmere Goat, his visit to City Road Basin, the purchase of a Chimpanzee, a visit by the Queen to the Gardens, a stillborn Rhesus Monkey, dimensions of the back of a new den for the Elephant and Rhinoceros, the cost of laying the floor of the Elephant and Rhinoceros House, the death of a Chimpanzee and the return of John Woodbridge with Cranes and Leopards

Letter from Robert I Montgomery, Secretary of the Royal Zoological Society of Ireland, to Philip Lutley Sclater regarding the cost of the transit of a rhinoceros

Letter from the New York Zoological Society regarding the acquisition of an Indian Rhinoceros

Correspondence with Fairfield Osborne of the New York Zoological Society regarding the sale of a rhinoceros to Milwaukee Zoo and the International Zoo Yearbook

List of the Officers and Servants of ZSL with the Salaries of each, 1 Oct 1836; List of Officers & Keepers – and date of appointment, Dec 1853; Income and Expenditure 1825-1857; Income and Expenditure 1825-1875; Return of the Garden Establishment showing Occupation, Rate of Wages, 8 Dec 1848; Quantities of Fruit & Vegetables consumed in the Society’s Gardens, 1898; Zoological Photographic Club’s Exhibition 1912 – Regulations; [Table of] Year, No. of Fellows, Income, Expenditure, Admissions to Gardens, 1825-1904; List of the principal buildings erected in the Society’s Gardens since 1860 and their cost, 1860-1883; Cost of principal buildings erected in the Society’s Gardens from 1859 to 1899; Notes on Garden Guide sales, 1903; Attendances at Lectures, 1882-1884, 1897-1899; Lectures Regulations, 1900; Amounts paid annually for rates, 1866-1884; Rules for Keepers living in the Lodge, 1910; Visitors and Receipts on Christmas Day, 1888-1908; Notes by A Thomson on injuries to keepers caused by Rhinoceros, Huanaco and Chimpanzee, 1907