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)

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

Letter from Julian Sorell Huxley to Henry G Maurice regarding a Rhino and a Giraffe at the Gardens of the Zoological Society of London

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

Correspondence between Raymond Hook and Geoffrey Marr Vevers regarding offers of animals including a Rock Hyrax, a pair of Rhinos, Reticulated Giraffes and Grevy's Zebras

Letter from the Conservator of Forests in Assam to the Divisional Forest Officer, Sibsagar Division regarding arrangements for catching a Rhino to be dispatched to the Zoological Gardens in Alipore on behalf of the Zoological Society of London

Correspondence between Geoffrey Marr Vevers and E P Gee regarding a Rhinoceros film he made on a visit to the Kaziranga Sanctuary in 1939

Correspondence between Carr Hartley and George Soper Cansdale regarding a special exhibit of a White Rhino at the Zoological Society of London

Correspondence between Vought, Fullbrook and Co and George Soper Cansdale regarding the offer of a Rhinoceros to the Zoological Society of London

Letters from William John Broderip to Edward Turner Bennett regarding the entrance ticket to the Gardens of the Zoological Society of London belonging to Prince Talleyrand, a rhinoceros close to Thames Police Office which could be purchased by the Society, the plan of building at the Park versus a town house, a newspaper report regarding the Zoological Society of London being in treaty with the agent of the Marquess of Anglesea for the purchase of Uxbridge House, and a specimen for the Gardens