Architecture award from The Royal Institute of British Architects London Region for the Elephant and Rhinoceros Pavilion. Designed by Casson, Conder and Partners for ZSL

Agreement to erect and complete a new Elephant and Rhinoceros house. Includes letter from Architect and Schedule of Conditions of Building Contract

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

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

Letters from John Sabine regarding the housing of the Rhinoceros and Tapir, conversations with Fuller about a larger repository for the greater carnivores, committee meetings of the Zoological Society of London and the dismissal of the head gardener and his recommendation of Morris Burr as his successor

List of the Officers and Servants of ZSL with the Salaries of each, 1 Oct 1836; List of Officers & Keepers – and date of appointment, Dec 1853; Income and Expenditure 1825-1857; Income and Expenditure 1825-1875; Return of the Garden Establishment showing Occupation, Rate of Wages, 8 Dec 1848; Quantities of Fruit & Vegetables consumed in the Society’s Gardens, 1898; Zoological Photographic Club’s Exhibition 1912 – Regulations; [Table of] Year, No. of Fellows, Income, Expenditure, Admissions to Gardens, 1825-1904; List of the principal buildings erected in the Society’s Gardens since 1860 and their cost, 1860-1883; Cost of principal buildings erected in the Society’s Gardens from 1859 to 1899; Notes on Garden Guide sales, 1903; Attendances at Lectures, 1882-1884, 1897-1899; Lectures Regulations, 1900; Amounts paid annually for rates, 1866-1884; Rules for Keepers living in the Lodge, 1910; Visitors and Receipts on Christmas Day, 1888-1908; Notes by A Thomson on injuries to keepers caused by Rhinoceros, Huanaco and Chimpanzee, 1907

Letters from Abraham Dee Bartlett to Philip Lutley Sclater regarding the doors to the new elephant house, animal food consumption, the female rhinoceros, the mounted specimen of a young gorilla, authorisation to sell Alice the elephant to Mr Barnum, and the theft of an owl

Letter from Robert I Montgomery, Secretary of the Royal Zoological Society of Ireland, to Philip Lutley Sclater regarding the cost of the transit of a rhinoceros