Papers relating to members of the UK and foreign Royal, including visits to ZSL London and Whipsnade Zoos
Sans titreBooks filled in daily, listing the arrivals and departures, births and deaths of animals at London Zoo and Whipsnade. Other details mentioned in some of the books are numbers of visitors and money taken, particular visitors, keepers absent, unwell animals, building works, temperatures in the animal houses, weather. Also referred to as 'day books'.
Sans titreNon-ZSL collections with have been donated to ZSL Archive
Sans titreLetters and papers relating to the position of Secretary at ZSL. In the past this position was responsible for the overall running of the Zoo(s), but in later years it has become an honorary position. The letters in particular show a breadth of correspondence between the society and people and organisations around the world.
Sans titreZSL had an in-house architecture department for many years, which was responsible for building of many of the iconic buildings still extant onsite today.
Sans titreReports both internal and externally published by the society.
Sans titreZSL Whipsnade Zoo, formerly known as Whipsnade Wild Animal Park, is a zoo and safari park located at Whipsnade, near Dunstable in Bedfordshire, England. It is one of two zoos (the other being ZSL London Zoo in Regent's Park, London) that are owned by the Zoological Society of London. A disastrous fire in Whipsnade's Administration block in 1962 destroyed most of the archives held at Whipsnade (except for the Whipsnade Daily Occurrences). The files listed here were the ones kept in the Offices at Regent's Park, and were therefore not lost in the fire.
Sans titrePapers relating to curators and keepers from ZSL's history.
Sans titreStaff records of ZSL
Sans titreLegal records of ZSL
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