Major Sir William Cornwallis Harris (born 2 April 1807 – died 9 October 1848) was an English military engineer, artist and hunter. In June 1836, Harris arrived at Cape Town. From the Cape, he arranged a hunting trip, which ...
William Catton Branford was born in 1837 in the United Kingdom and died in 1891 (place not known). He came to the Cape Colony in October 1876 on a three year contract as the first Colonial Veterinary Surgeon and during his ...
Karl Ernst von Baer (28 February 1792 - 28 November 1876) was a Baltic German scientist and explorer. He was a founding father of embryology and was an explorer of European Russia and Scandinavia. (Source: Wikipedia)
Lieutenant Colonel Richard Rowe was born on 7/2/1844. He qualified MRCVS (London) on 21/4/1869 and saw service in South Africa as a regular Army Veterinary Department officer from 31/3/1886 to 13/3/1892. During this period ...
Site of the Waterval Rinderpest Research Station before 1898. Photo taken probably 1897. An experimental station to study rinderpest had been set up on the farm Waterval (near Onderstepoort), north of Pretoria in 1897. ...
International Rinderpest Congress (3rd : 1897 : Pretoria, South Africa)(Pretoria : Staatsdrukkerij van de Zuid-Afrikaansche Republiek, 1898)
Report on the International Rinderpest Congress held at Pretoria from the 2nd to the 13th August 1897 for the purpose of acquainting the Governments of South Africa with the most powerful means of combatting the rinderpest, ...
Crawford was born at Hastings in Sussex in 1850. He graduated from the Royal Veterinary College in 1873 and enlisted in the army in the same year, joining the Royal Artillery as a veterinarian. In late 1874 he was posted ...
Photo of the grave of Major Frank Fairbairn Crawford who died on January 16th, 1900 (aged 49). Crawford was born at Hastings in Sussex in 1850. He graduated from the Royal Veterinary College in 1873 and enlisted in the ...
Paul Martin Julius Kohlstock was a sanitary officer and researcher in tropical medicine. He was born on January 5, 1861 in Berlin, Germany and died on April 15, 1901 in Tianjin, China. On the 1st of December 1896 he arrived ...
Photograph of A.C. MacDonald. He wrote an article "The Afrikander breed of cattle" published in the Transvaal Agricultural Journal, Volume III, no. 9 in October 1904
(Pretoria : Government Printing and Stationary Office, 1905-07)
The 1904-1905 report of the Veterinary Bacteriological Laboratories give a complete account of the progress of investigations at the laboratories. The main object of the work during the year, was the further study of horse ...
Theiler, Arnold; Union of South Africa. Dept. of Agriculture(Pretoria : Government Printer and Stationary Office, 1905-08)
The 1903-1904 report of the Veterinary Bacteriological Laboratories give a complete account of the progress of investigations at the laboratories. The work is divided in two parts, the first embraces the ordinary routine ...
Dr Duncan Hutcheon was appointed in 1880 as Colonial Veterinary Surgeon for the Cape Colony. Hutcheon can be regarded as the true pioneer in veterinary science in South Africa and was responsible for the elucidation of ...