Monkeys

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Volume 2, summer edition 1993 of Ark File, the magazine for the RZSS.

In this edition topics include; the cleaning of the penguin enclosure windows; appearance of female monkeys; Highland Wildlife Park news; arrivals and departures of animals at the RZSS's zoos.

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Photograph of an Indian man standing on a path at a farm with a bear sitting next to him on a rope lead with a small monkey on its back in the early 20th century.

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Box 1 contains the following groups of negatives, as they were found in their original boxes - King Penguins, Monkeys, Bears, and Chimpanzee 'Bobo'.

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A collection of lantern slides, possibly taken by Mary Elizabeth Gillespie, Thomas Gillespie's wife. The photographs are mainly of animals at Edinburgh Zoo. Further details of individual slides can be found at item level.

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 glass plate negative showing a group of rhesus monkeys in an enclosure at Edinburgh Zoo.

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A glass plate negative showing a group of rhesus monkeys in an enclosure at Edinburgh Zoo.

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A pamphlet titled "How Dogs and Monkeys are Treated in London", about the use of dogs and monkeys in vivisection. The society who published it is disputed on the front cover. It is printed as the British Union for the Abolition of Vivisection, London. Stamped on top of that it the Scottish Anti-Vivisection Society, Glasgow. Above that is stamped the Scottish Anti Vivisection Society, Glasgow.

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An article by M. Beddow Bayly on the suffering of monkeys being transported around the world for vivisection. In this case, attention is given to the death of 394 monkeys who died of suffocation between Delhi and New York. Published by the National Anti-Vivisection Society.