Minutes of the Aquarium Research Fellowship Committee

Report to the Council of the Zoological Society of London by the Aquarium Research Fellowship Committee

Correspondence between L W Burdon and George Soper Cansdale regarding a possible Aquarium exhibit based on the carp pond which is used in Malaya for fish production

Correspondence between Sir Arthur Landsborough Thomson and L Harrison Matthews regarding the XI International Ornithological Congress, Scientific Meetings, the Medical Research Council's Radiobiological Research Unit, the International Congress of Zoology, Council Meetings, Goliath Herons, reports of the Prosectorial Sub-Committee, meetings of the Publication Committee, the British Ornithologists' Union, the proposed advertisement for the Curatorship of the Aquarium, Corresponding Membership, and meetings of the Selection Committee and Planning Committee

David William Mitchell was a zoologist and illustrator. He was responsible for the construction of the fish house - the first public aquarium - in 1853. He was ZSL Secretary from 1847-1859.

Statement by Peter Chalmers Mitchell for the consideration of the Council in connection with proposed future improvements to the Gardens, including new refreshment rooms, the Aquarium and general garden improvements

Volume listing holders of ivory tickets to both the Zoo and Aquarium, between 1897 and 1949. List seems not complete. Ivory tickets were issued as yearly entrances passes into the Zoo/Aquarium and would be handed over/shown at the gate in the same way

Correspondence between K F Moorhouse Ltd and Geoffrey Marr Vevers regarding the introduction of a Monkey House into the Aquarium at Brighton Aquarium

Letters from William Saville Kent of the Museum and Institute of Pisciculture Society Limited, to Philip Lutley Sclater regarding the establishment of a marine observatory and laboratory in connection with the Brighton Aquarium, his appointment as Inspector of Fisheries to the Government of Tasmania, his application to become a Fellow of the Zoological Society of London, his inspection of the fish house, enquiries about the vacant post of Prosector, and a proposed British Zoological Station for the study of marine animals and plats with relation to the advancement of the sciences of biology and economic pisciculture

Secretary of State and Home Department

March 24 1877

Your Royal Highness

I am indeed most obliged to you for your very kind present. It is very beautiful and quite apropos to the work I like so much. I shall value it very much and am deeply grateful to you for it. I am looking forward some day next month to show you over the Brighton Aquarium I shall be free after 10 April. I have now [got?] to go to South Wales and Devonshire on Inspection duty I have not forgotten the Cray fish and the Swans.

Yours most obliged

Frank Buckland