Notes by Julian Huxley on visits to the Zoological Gardens at New York (Bronx Park), Philadelphia, Washington DC, Paris (Vincennes), Hamburg, Berlin, Munich (Hellabrunn) and Frankfort, also the Aquarium at Chicago
Draft notes by Julian Huxley on visits to the Zoological Gardens at New York (Bronx Park), Philadelphia, Washington DC, Paris (Vincennes), Hamburg, Berlin, Munich (Hellabrunn) and Frankfort, also the Aquarium at Chicago
Edward George Boulenger spent three weeks in America where he visited and studied the aquaria, zoological parks and museums in New York and Chicago
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.
Journal of voyages to the W Indies, S America, E Indies and China, Cape of Good Hope and St Helena, from 1823 to 1831, in the Barque Charles and H C Ship Berwickshire
Sans titreLetter regarding a shipment of Hedgehogs from the Zoological Society of London to the Zoological Society of Philadelphia
Correspondence between the Avicultural Society and George Soper Cansdale regarding an invitation for Cansdale and his wife to attended the nineteenth Meeting and Dinner of the British Aviculturists' Club, and ten Blue Masked Lovebirds that had arrived from the San Diego Zoo
Correspondence between the Colonial Office and George Soper Cansdale regarding fry of Tilapia Zillii to be despatched to Antigue, an Tilapia Mossambica and Trichogaster Pectoralis Regan from Malaya for the West Indies
Correspondence between Philadelphia Zoo and George Soper Cansdale regarding the importation of Salamanders for the Pathology Department of Ancoats Hospital
Letter regarding an extract from a letter received from Robert Bean, Director of the Chicago Zoological Park, regarding several gorillas that were taken to the United States