Correspondence between Burnet, Tait and Lorne and Julian Sorell Huxley regarding proposed new elephant and rhinoceros houses and paddocks at the Zoological Society of London, and the proposed Tusker Elephant House at Whipsnade Zoo. Also minutes of the Whipsnade Committee 9th December 1936, and an extract from a memo on accommodation for catering staff at Whipsnade (known then as the House of Pleasant Bread)
Rhinoceros
5 Archivistische beschrijving results for Rhinoceros
Correspondence between Veale & Saunders and the Treasurer of the Zoological Society of London regarding the construction of the new Elephant and Rhinoceros House at London Zoo
Letters from Alexander Miller of the Zoological Gardens regarding a Chinese Pheasant which escaped and had been running in Park Street, Camden Town, an escape from the Dove House, the removal of an oak fence on the southern boundary, the health of a Rhinoceros, the Society's Cashmere Goat, his visit to City Road Basin, the purchase of a Chimpanzee, a visit by the Queen to the Gardens, a stillborn Rhesus Monkey, dimensions of the back of a new den for the Elephant and Rhinoceros, the cost of laying the floor of the Elephant and Rhinoceros House, the death of a Chimpanzee and the return of John Woodbridge with Cranes and Leopards
Correspondence between John Spedan Lewis, of the John Lewis Partnership, and Julian Sorell Huxley regarding the design and construction of a new Elephant and Rhinoceros House at the Zoological Society of London
Correspondence between the Duke of Bedford and Geoffrey Marr Vevers regarding getting European Bison from Poland, the Curator of the New York Zoological Society sending White-tailed deer to the Zoological Society of London, an offer of Chartley Cattle and Soay Sheep by the Duke of Bedford, a specimen of the under-coat of the Pere David's deer, the early history of Pere David's deer, an Indian Rhino being brought from Calcutta by ZSL Overseer L M Flewin, Wisent bulls in Stockholm, the rearing of Pere David's deer at Whipsnade, an exchange of Parakeets, and the importation of Pere David's deer to Australia,