University of Edinburgh Archive and Manuscript Collections

Scope and Contents A collection of correspondence, dating from 1938-1949. The topics include the following. 1. newspaper cuttings on dog fighting in Staffordshire, 1936 2. enquiries about the fate of 250 monkeys brought to the UK from Calcutta (Kolcuta), 1949 3. Letters and copy of article on the poor treatment of sheepdogs by Richard Perry, 1946 4. Letters on the use of animals in atomic bomb experiments, 1946 5. Notes and letters on the Living Dog Experiment film from the USSR, 1944 6. A letter...

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"Cruel and Vain Repetition, experiments upon living creatures", a pamphlet distributed by the Vivisection Investigation League about experiments carried out on dogs, cats, rabbits and monkeys.

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A leaflet, published by the SSPV, about the deaths of monkeys whilst is transit to laboratories for vivisection.

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"Near Human Model for Research", was a pamphlet published by the SSPV, highlighting the use of monkeys and primates in scientific experiments. This pamphlet was revised in April 1990.

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A leaflet, written by M. Beddow Bayly, about experiments being conducted on monkeys in the US, particularly regarding a chair used to restrain the monkey. Published by the Scottish Society for the Prevention of Vivisection in 1965, and reprinted from a large to small size in March 1979.

The leaflet contains a distressing image. Discretion is advised.

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"What the Export of Monkeys from Indian Means", a leaflet written by M. Beddow Bayly. The leaflet concerns the poor conditions monkeys, set for exportation for vivisection, are kept in and how disease spreads easily to wild monkeys which affects the mortality rates.

The leaflet was withdrawn from publication, May 1968

This leaflet contains some distressing images.