Scope and Contents Correspondence and newspaper cuttings relating to an occasion where an anti-vivisectionist protested at the arrival of cats from London to Marischal College. Harvey Metcalfe, along with an inspector from the SSPCA, inspected the cats at Waverley Station due to concerns about their welfare when travelling. This folder contains a collection of newspaper cuttings relating to the inspection, and letters from the SSPV and various newspapers, animal welfare charities and Aberdeen University,...

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A campaign leaflet which includes a photograph and words by Scottish poet, Alasdair Alpin MacGregor, about the death of a vivsected cat. There is a photograph of MacGregor holding a cat. The leaflet has information on how to join SSPV. Reprinted from the Daily Telegraph.

The leaflet was withdrawn in 1969 due to six words missing from the document.

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"Cat's Stolen for Vivisection", written by M Beddow Bayly and published by the SSPV in 1958 (then reprinted in 1962) is a warning to cat owners to keep their cats indoors in order to prevent them being stolen and sold to vivisection labs.

This pamphlet was re-issued in May 1967 and withdrawn May 1972.

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Photograph of two kittens 'playing' checkers or draughts in Chilliwack, B[ritish] C[olumbia], [Canada] in the early 20th century.

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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 pamphlet written by L. Lind-af-Hageby titled "Cruel Experiments on Dogs and Cats Performed in British Laboratories", for the Animal Defence and Anti-Vivisection Soceity, 1927.

Originally printed in the Anti-Vivisection and Humanitarian Review.

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Cure for 'King's evil' [scrofula] using blood of a black cat. Text has been scored through as if transcribed elsewhere.

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A leaflet "Experiments on Cats", published by the British Union for the Abolition of Vivisection.

The leaflet contains details of recent experiments carried out on cats and a statement from an unnamed M.P.

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Expression which reads 'Rinn e suilean a chait rium' meaning 'growing wild at me'.

Scope and Contents Field notebook belonging to Alexander Carmichael probably while he lived at 31, Raeburn Place, Edinburgh, as this address is written in ink on the first folio. Written on the inside front cover but heavily scored is text which reads 'Mrs Malcolm MacLeod, [- Islay], widow of Mal[colm] MacLeod [Loch-]. The majority of the notebook contains material collected from Donald Currie, crofter, Ìle/ Islay relating folklore and natural history about the birds, fish, shellfish and animals found in and...