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Report by Peter Chalmers Mitchell on a visit to Brussels, Berlin and Dresden in December 1913 to examine new Aquaria

Report by E G Boulenger on a a visit to Vienna, Berlin and Amsterdam with the special object of visiting the Biologische Versuchsanstalt in Vienna and the Aquarium in Berlin

David Seth Smith attended, as delegate of the Zoological Society and the Society for the Preservation of the Fauna of the Empire, the Meeting of the European Continental Section of the International Committee for Bird Preservation held in Vienna

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.

Colour negatives of views of Stuttgart, Frankfurt, Jakarta and Bogor Zoos

Correspondence between the Control Commission for Germany and George Soper Cansdale regarding the death of an Ostrich on deposit from Hamburg, and a question as to whether or not the Zoological Society of London wished to return the animals on deposit from Germany before the end of the agreed period of loan, i.e. 1950

Correspondence between L Rule and George Soper Cansdale regarding the return of animal from the Zoological Society of London to Germany

Correspondence between E H Tong and George Soper Cansdale regarding matters at Whipsnade, including causes of deaths of animals, animal record cards, the Canadian Department of Mines and Resources, the acquisition of animals, and animals on deposit from Germany