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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

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.

Correspondence regarding amendments to the Charter and Byelaws, British Waterways Board, Whipsnade and a copy of Transfer of Land at Whipsnade in 1952

Correspondence between Sheffield Airey Neave and Alan Francis Brooke regarding Webb's resignation, transcripts of minutes of an Ordinary General Meeting, Bye-Laws of the Zoological Society of London, the re-creation of the Secretaryship Committee, presentations of the Gold Medal and visits to Whipsnade

Correspondence between Alan Francis Brooke and Officers of the Zoological Society of London regarding minutes of the Secretaryship Committee, Scientific Meetings, action taken by the Society on the occasion of the death of the Sovereign, the opening of the new boiler house, Council Meetings, the Garden Party at Whipsnade and Ordinary General Meetings

Correspondence between Alan Francis Brooke Officers of the Zoological Society of London regarding an evening reception for Fellows, Scientific Meetings, Council Meeting relating to George Cansdale, awards for staff of the Society, Minty's Motion put forward at a Ordinary General Meeting, the Annual General Meeting, Council Meetings, and the Bird Protection Bill

Correspondence between Alan Francis Brooke and Officers of the Zoological Society of London regarding his resignation from the Presidency of the Zoological Society of London, the Annual General Meeting, and a collection of Australian mammals and birds

Correspondence between Alan Francis Brooke and Officers of the Zoological Society of London regarding his recent illness, kind enquiries from the Council of the Zoological Society of London, and Dr Richard Clarke of Bristol Zoo

Correspondence between Alan Francis Brooke and Officers of the Zoological Society of London regarding his Snipe film being shown at a Scientific Meeting of the Zoological Society of London, the Zoological Club, and Council Meetings

Correspondence between Alan Francis Brooke and Officers of the Zoological Society of London regarding the intention of some Fellows to counter the propaganda of the so-called 'rebel' Fellows, his resignation as a Fellow of the Society, a photograph of Alan Brooke for the Council Room, and an offer of Honorary Fellowship