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Papers regarding a fatal accident in the Lion Pit at Whipsnade

Copies of letters regarding the drainage system of the gardens of the Zoological Society into Regent's Canal, with accompanying map

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.

Plan, section and elevation drawings relating to the construction of the Quarantine and Sanatorium Building, London Zoo, dated January-

Papers regarding the Michael Sobell Pavilions for Apes and Monkeys at ZSL London Zoo, including Council minutes, memorandums, briefs, plans and correspondence

Contract documents, specifications and plans for the Tropical Bird House, ZSL London Zoo

Plan showing the details of the base and base wall of the Raven's Cage at London Zoo

Plan showing the Sobell enclosure conversion as part of the Giant Panda project

Proposal by Burrell Hayward & Budd, Walter Llewellyn & Sons Ltd for the refurbishment of the Penguin Pool at ZSL London Zoo