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  • SAVA Congress 2022 : veterinary history session 
    Bath, Gareth; South African Veterinary Association. Veterinary History Society (2023-03)
    For the first time since the World Veterinary Association Congress was held in Cape Town in 2011, the Veterinary History Society (previously a SAVA Committee) arranged a whole-day session on Veterinary History at the ...
  • In memoriam : in memory of Dr Peter Henry Bunton (02 March 1922 - 19 February 2023) 
    Bath, Anne; South African Veterinary Association. Veterinary History Society (2023-03)
    Peter Henry Bunton was born on 2 March 1922, possibly in Port Elizabeth, where his parents Henry Arthur Bunton and his mother, Grace Isabel Gilfillan were living at that time and managing the family's Bunton's Grand Hotel. ...
  • In memoriam : in memory of Dr Sandy Waddingham 05/08/1959 - 16/12/2022 
    Macintyre, Avis; South African Veterinary Association. Veterinary History Society (2023-02)
    One of the most beloved veterinarians in Hermanus, Dr Sandy Waddingham died on 16 December 2023 after a long and brave battle with cancer. Sandy was born in 1958, the youngest of 5 children. After qualifying as veterinarian ...
  • Annual report of the Director of Veterinary Services, Onderstepoort, Pretoria : 15th report, October 1929 Volume II (Sections V to IX) 
    Union of South Africa. Dept. of Agriculture (Pretoria : Government Printer, 1929-10)
    Volume II (sections V to IX) of the 15th report issued in 1929 by the Director of Veterinary Services at the Onderstepoort Laboratories, Pretoria about the following topics: Section V. Pathology -- Section VI. Diseases due ...
  • Annual report of the Director of Veterinary Services, Onderstepoort, Pretoria : 15th report, October 1929 [Volume 1] (Sections I to IV) 
    Union of South Africa. Dept. of Agriculture (Pretoria : Government Printer, 1929-10)
    This is the 15th report issued in 1929 by the Director of Veterinary Services at the Onderstepoort Laboratories, Pretoria about the following topics: section I. Protozoal diseases -- section II. Virus diseases -- section ...
  • In memoriam : in memory of Alan Fair 
    Fouche, Susan; Carstens, Ann; South African Veterinary Association. Veterinary History Society (2023-03)
    This is a tribute to the late Dr Alan Fair, who sadly passed away on 26 February 2022 at the young age (as he liked to say) of 87. Alan started out as a State Vet in Rustenburg, then spent a brief time in Pietermaritzburg, ...
  • In memoriam : in memory of Maurice Anthony Joseph Azzie (1935-2022) 
    Azzie, Bernadette; Carstens, Ann; Boshoff, Annette; South African Veterinary Association. Veterinary History Society (2023-02)
    Maurice Azzie was born in East London, South Africa, on the 29th of October 1935, the son of Tim and Mary Azzie. Having completed two years of a Bachelor of Science (in Biology) at the University of Witwatersrand in ...
  • The sexual cycle of female domesticated mammals : the ovarian changes and the periodicity of oestrum in cattle, sheep, goats, pigs and horses (observations on animals in central Europe and South Africa) 
    Kupfer, Max; Union of South Africa. Dept. of Agriculture (Pretoria : Government Printer and Stationery Office, 1928)
    This short article has been written with the object of giving a condensed account of the results of investigations on female reproductive organs and observaions on the sexual life of domestic animals. It includes the ...
  • Annual report of the Government Veterinary Bacteriologist 1903-1904 
    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 ...
  • Annual report of the Government Bacteriologist and Director Laboratory, Pietermaritzburg for the year ended December 31st, 1903 
    Union of South Africa. Dept. of Agriculture (Pietermaritzburg : Times Printing and Publishing Company, 1905)
    Report of 1903 about the outbreak of horsesickness and babonic plague in Natal
  • Report of the International Rinderpest Congress, held at Pretoria from the 2nd to the 13th August 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, ...
  • Dr Jotello Festiri Soga : his career 
    Heyne, Heloise (2023)
    Historical summary of Dr Jotello Festiri Soga's career from 22 April 1886 when he registered as veterinary surgeon in Tutuka, Cape Colony to 1902 when he was employed by Carl H. Malcomess to supervise his cattle on the ...
  • In memoriam : Ramoni Joubert 
    South African Veterinary Association. Veterinary History Society (2023-01)
    Obituary of Dr Ramoni Joubert (24/02/1994 - 7/12/2022) who was an incredibly driven and diverse woman. One minute she would be walking the runways in New York. The next, she’d be riding a horse across the Okavango Delta.
  • Mr David Swanepoel : honorary associate life membership (posthumous) 
    South African Veterinary Association. Veterinary History Society (2023-01)
    Mr David Swanepoel served as librarian of the Onderstepoort Veterinary Research (OVR) Institute from his appointment in 1985 until retiring in 2020 but passed away shortly afterwards. David was a co-opted founder member ...
  • Animals in mythology 
    Pullinger, Leonie; South African Veterinary Association. Veterinary History Society (1989)
    In a fit to transform ideas into images or images into words or stories, Leonie Pullinger have often referred to the New Larousse Encyclopedia of Mythology in which there are accounts of all kinds of animals, ordinary and ...
  • New bovine disease in the United Kingdom 
    South African Veterinary Association. Veterinary History Society (1989)
    News article about a new, slowly progressive neurological disorder of adult cattle that has been recognised in the UK. It was first diagnosed in November 1986. the condition was called bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE)
  • Faculty Day 1989 
    South African Veterinary Association. Veterinary History Society (1989)
    News article about the 6th Faculty Day held at the Faculty of Veterinary Science, University of Pretoria on the 27th September 1989 in the Arnold Theiler Building at the Onderstepoort Campus.
  • From the President's desk : inauguration of the Veterinary Nurses Association of South Africa 
    Coubrough, R.I.; South African Veterinary Association. Veterinary History Society (1978)
    On the 11th November 1978, a significant event in veterinary history took place with the inauguration of the Veterinary Nurses Association of South Africa
  • Dr J.D.H. Poole (BVSc, 1955) 
    South African Veterinary Association. Veterinary History Society (1978)
    Notice about the appointment of the veterinarian, Dr J.D.H. Poole, as director of Pitman Moore inc. in 1978
  • Dr J.G. Schurmann (BVSc, 1962) 
    South African Veterinary Association. Veterinary History Society (1978)
    Notice of the unexpected death of the veterinarian, Dr J.G. Schurmann