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A bound volume containing newspaper cuttings, initially in regard to Harvey Metcalfe's publication "This Must Not Happen in Britain", but relates to more general animal welfare articles, ending with dogs being used in Russian space exploration.

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Documentation relating to Parliamentary work of the Scottish Society for the Prevention of Vivisection in response to the slaughter of animals for human consumption and the welfare therein.

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Newspaper cuttings on animal protection Bills going through parliament, 1953 Vivisection of Animals, A Bill to Prohibit the Vivisection of Higher Animals, 27 March 1919 Cruelty to Animals Bill, 1907 A Bill to Prohibit the Vivisection of the Higher Animals, 1913 Rough draft for a Bill to prevent experiments of any nature upon Dogs in any place licensed for experiments upon living animals, 1935 Draft of a Bill to provide for the further protection of British wild birds, 1933

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A document titled, "Anti-Vivsection Policy", published by the British Union for the Abolition of Vivisection, which sets out their plans for the gradual end to vivisection and the protection of animals.

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An ink drawing with white highlights of a poster design. Artist unknown. The poster is a plee to help pass the Bill for the exhemption from vivisection of the higher animals. The charities of the Scottish Society for the Prevention of Vivisection and the Animal Defence and Anti-Vivisection Society are the named on the poster.

Annotations can be found on the verso of the illustration "good painting of horses, monkeys and dogs and cats, writing no use"

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A bound volume containing details of the names, addresses, and amount paid in subscriptions to the Scottish Society for the Prevention of Vivisection in Ayrshire and Argyllshire between 1922-1931.

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A bound volume containing details of the names, addresses, and amount paid in subscriptions to the Scottish Society for the Prevention of Vivisection in Ayrshire and Argyllshire between 1932-1941.


Contains 13 inserts throughout the volume regarding subscriptions

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A book review written by Henry Spira on "Slaughter of the Innocent" by Hans Ruesch Bantam. this book review was published in Our Town, 3rd September 1978.

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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"Children in Institutions used as Experimental Material", was published by the British Union for the Abolition of Vivisection in 1935. The pamphlet is about using children for testing immunisation and asks the question, "shall we do evil in the vain hope that good may come?"