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Laboratory animals

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: Created For = AMS

Found in 8 Collections and/or Records:

Drosophila melanogaster as a test organism for aseptic nutritional research, 1955

 Item
Identifier: Coll-1362/3/123
Scope and Contents

Located in Poultry Research Centre Staff Papers 1953-57.

Dates: 1955

Evidence on Laboratory Visits, 1932 - 1974

 File
Identifier: Coll-1618/2/1/5/5
Scope and Contents A combintation of letters, reports, notices and cuttings relating to visits to vivisection laboratories carried out by the Scottish Society for the Prevention of Vivisection. Records in this file include; A leaflet, published by the SSPV, titled "An Animal Lover Visits Vivisectional Laboratories" A page from Oral Answers, 24th January 1974, about visits to laboratories. "Additional Notes on (Visits to Edinburgh and Glasgow Laboratories) For the Committee on...
Dates: 1932 - 1974

File titled 'F.R.A.M.E' (Fund for the Replacement of Animals in Medical Experiments), 1971-1974

 Item
Identifier: Coll-41/10/24
Scope and Contents

Contains mainly copies of articles, leaflets and newsletters from F.R.A.M.E. The few items of correspondence reveal that, although Waddington made a donation to the organisation and expressed interest in their aims, he turned down their request for him to be a patron.

Dates: 1971-1974

Page mounted with photograph of John G. Campbell and William Bolton, injecting a chick in the laboratory, 1949

 Item
Identifier: Coll-1057/6/2/25
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series: The photographs consist mainly of photographs of Alan Greenwood, staff from the Institute of Animal Genetics and Poultry Research Centre, their relations and visitors, and various events and conferences. There are also a number of photographs showing the construction and opening of the Poultry Research Centre building at Kings Buildings and the sub-station at Easter Bush. There appears to be a combination of official photographs taken, for instance, for a publication, and more informal...
Dates: 1949

Rationalisation and modification of a germ-free isolator design, 1978

 Item
Identifier: Coll-1362/1/651
Scope and Contents

Located in A.B.R.O. Reprints 1978. Volume 12 of 19.

Dates: 1978

The Case Against Vivisection Deputation, 1948

 Item
Identifier: Coll-1618/2/1/1/2
Scope and Contents

A deputation, sent to the Home Secretary, Rt. Hon. J. Chuter Ede, on the 23rd February 1948 from the conference of anti-vivisection societies. The title of the deputation is "The Case Against Vivisection", and it contains the opinions of those within the anti-vivisection movement and examples of ill treatment of animals. It was published by the Scottish Society for the Prevention of Vivisection.

Dates: 1948

Visits to Vivisectional Laboratories and correspondence in connection therein, 1910 - 1949

 File
Identifier: Coll-1618/2/1/5/4
Scope and Contents

A collection of correspondence and reports from the SSPV and laboratories, including the University of Edinburgh, about visits to see the treatment of animals used in animal experimentation. Most of the visits are to laboratories across Scotland between the dates of 1910 - 1949.

Also included are cuttings and extracts from publications such as The Animals' Friend, 1940, "Experiments on Animals", from the Lancet, and "Counted with the Oppressors, by J. Leonard Cather.

Dates: 1910 - 1949