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. ...
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
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 ...
Wilhelm Otto Daniel Martin Neitz was, internationally recognised as research expert on theileriosis. He was born on 17 November 1906 in Potgietersrus, Limpopo Province, South Africa and died on 18 August 1979 in Pretoria, ...