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Papers relating to curators and keepers from ZSL's history.

Staff records of ZSL

Legal records of ZSL

London Zoo opened in April 1828 as the Gardens of the Zoological Society of London, in the first instance only to fellows of the society. It opened to the general public in 1847, in an effort to boost funds for the Zoo.

Letters and papers relating to the position of President at Zoological Society of London

Records of the committees of London Zoo and Whipsnade Zoo

Records relating to the Institute of Zoology and ZSL's scientific endeavours

Records of conservation work undertaken by ZSL

Records of ZSL's fundraising work (the fundraising function used to be called Development)

It was proposed in the setting up of ZSL that there would be a museum for zoological specimens, and items began being collected c.1827 including a collection of Sumatran specimens donated by Lady Sophia Raffles, widow of ZSL founder Sir Stamford Raffles. The museum was housed firstly within our office building at 33 Bruton Street in central London, and charged entry for people to visit. Many specimens were donated by fellows, John Gould donated his collection of Himalayan birds in 1831 to the museum, for example. The museum proved very popular, and grew at such a rate that it was one of the reasons for moving office to Leicester square. It was decided that the Society either needed to purchase a dedicated building for it - or to disperse the collection. ZSL Council chose the latter, and by 1855 the collection had been dispersed to various other collections including the British Museum (Natural History) and Norwich Museum.