'Dog Bills'

1-9 Bills for protection of dogs and cats, various 1927-1936

10-11 Debates on Dogs Protection Bill March 1924 (2 copies).

12 MRC Memorandum upon the Dogs Protection (2 copies), 1927

13-19 Literature produced by RDS:

13 The Fight Against Disease (covering the Dogs Protection Bill, Jan 1927)

14 "Animals and Research", by 'G.P.C.', Feb 1927

15 "The methods and menace of anti-vivisection: an exposure" reprinted from The Fight Against Disease, (2 copies), April 1927

16 "The Home Office Report" reprinted from The Fight Against Disease, (2 copies), Oct 1927

17 "The necessity for utilizing dogs in the experimental investigation of diseases" reprinted from The Fight Against Disease, Summer 1928

18 "The dog's gift to the relief of suffering" by W.B. Cannon, reprinted from The Fight Against Disease, New year 1933

19 "Extracts from the evidence of Lord Justice Fletcher Moulton before the the Royal Commission on Vivisection, 1906-1908", reprinted for The Fight Again Disease, vol. xxiv, no. 4, 1936

20-24 Anti-Vivisection Literature:

20 National Canine Defence League (NCDL) leaflet 429 'Save Dogs from Vivisection' re. Dog's Protection Bill. (2 copies), c.1927

21A NCDL leaflet 353 'why vivisect dogs?' re. Report of Royal Commission on Vivisection

21B NCDL leaflet 360 'experiments on living dogs'

22 The Dog's Bulletin produced by NCDL, June 1927-July 1927

23 The Animals Defender issued by National Anti-Vivisection Society, Dec 1936

24 The Abolitionist issued by British Union for the Abolition of Vivisection, Jan 1937

25-68 Correspondence, notes and other papers relating to Dog's Protection Bill, 1925-1928; Includes correspondence of Lord Knutsford; details of petition presented to Secretary of State; information on progress of the bill; copy of BMJ supplement 9 Apr 1927 report on Conference on Animal Experimentation; leaflets produced by RDS; copy of petition received by A. Harland MP.

69-70 G.P. Crowden, on. Sec., RDS to Sir Henry Jackson MP, re Prohibition of Vivisection (Scotland) Bill, 1 Mar 1937. Note of enclosures for medical MPs, 1937

1924-37

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