Zoological Society of London

https://www.zsl.org/about-us/zsl-library-collection

ZSL Library contains a wide range of books and journals on all types of animals and their conservation. It has:

• More than 200,000 volumes
• 5,000 journal titles, 1,300 of which are current
• Free wireless internet access
• Document supply and copying services
• Archives of ZSL
• Books dating from 16th century to the present, ranging from popular to technical
• Holdings located on-site
• Modern books on open access in our Reading Room
• Special collection relating to information on zoos
• The ZSL drawings and prints collection
• Image collection
• Collection on the impacts of climate change

Library catalogue

Archive catalogue

Contact email address

History Day 2022 contributions

Blogs about the Experience of Scientists:

• Dear Secretary… Letters to Philip Lutley Sclater
• Artefact of the month: Wallace and paradise
• Artefact of the month: Happy Birthday, Joan Procter!
• An introduction to Brian Houghton Hodgson
• Artefact of the month: Animals of India by Samuel Richard Tickell. 1864

Introductory Video

History Day 2021 contributions

• Hummingbirds at the Zoological Gardens in 1851
• A Daring Heist- Lepidochromy or Nature-Printing of Butterflies and Moths 
• Lost and Rare- Illustrations of Extinct and Endangered Animals 
• HERpers: Women and Herpetology
• Mark Catesby and his Enduring Legacy 
• Artefact of the Month Blog Site 
• ZSL Online Catalogue