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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 from Midlothian between 1912-1920.

A bound volume containing details of the names, addresses, and amount paid in subscriptions to the Scottish Society for the Prevention of Vivisection from Midlothian between 1921-1930


Includes three inserts relating to subscriptions

A bound volume containing details of the names, addresses, and amount paid in subscriptions to the Scottish Society for the Prevention of Vivisection from Midlothian between 1931-1940


Includes numerous inserts relating to subscriptions

A bound volume containing the meeting minutes of the Scottish Society for the Prevention of Vivisection from 1958-1988


From 1958-1974 the minutes are handwrtten, from 1975-1988 the material has been printed and glued to the pages.

A bound volume containing details of the names, addresses, and amount paid in subscriptions to the Scottish Society for the Prevention of Vivisection from Scotland, the wider UK, and further afield, between 1912-1921


Includes one insert

A bound volume containing details of the names, addresses, and amount paid in subscriptions to the Scottish Society for the Prevention of Vivisection from various locations between 1938-1942

Reports from the National Anti-Vivisection Society from different societies across the UK including;

Report of the inaugural meeting of the Brighton Branch, 19th January 1905, and the first committee meeting report, 11th February 1905 Report from the National Anti-Vivisection Society, Edinburgh Branch, 1913 Forth annual report from the Glasgow Branch of the National Anti-Vivisection Society, 1915 Report from the Edinburgh Branch of the National Anti-Vivisection Society, 1917

A volume containing a register of members of the Scottish branch of the National Anti-Vivisection Society from 1903 until the Scottish branch broke away and became the Scottish Society for the Prevention of Vivisection.


The content includes the names and addresses of subscribers and how much they paid towards the organisation between 1903-1912. Arranged in alphabetical order.

The National Council for Animals' Welfare Week was founded in 1922 for the purpose of instituting an Annual Welfare Week, during which efforts would be made throughout the country to draw attention to the facts of our relationship to animals and the responsibilities we have towards them.

These are annual reports for those Animal Welfare Weeks, as follows.

1926 1927 1937 (two copies) 1938 1941-1943

"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.