Mary Elizabeth Bruce (nee Steele) (1849-1931) was co-worker with her husband Sir David Bruce. She made important and often vital scientific contributions to her husband's work. She was a microbiologist. In the South African ...

Library reading room with table and "riempies" chairs

F.J. McCall was the chief veterinarian officer in Kenya, 1914. Although rinderpest broke out in many localities, British colonial veterinarians occupying German East Africa focused on guarding the borders with Kenya, ...

William Wayne Apperly was the second son of Charles James Apperley, a Welsh sportsman and sporting writer better known as Nimrod, the pseudonym under which he published his works. William Wynne Apperley, was entered as a ...

Photograph of Lord and Lady Gladstone visit to Onderstepoort with Arnold Theiler and staff members. He was the 1st Governor-General of South Africa and in office 31 May 1910 – 8 September 1914. In 1901 Lord Gladstone ...

View from the clock tower of the main building, looking down on main drive between the staff houses at Onderstepoort.

Photo of the Main laboratory (also known as the "old" Main building) at Onderstepoort. The laboratory was inaugurated in 1908 and was also described as the "Palace of Extravagance". (Source: Concise History of the Origin ...

Major C. S. Walker was the host for a Dairy Congress held at Botha House on the grounds of the University of Grahamstown during September 29th - October 5th, 1935. [Diary of a Congress Delegate - SA Medical Journal, Oct ...

James William Crowhurst was born in 1865, Canterbury, United Kingdom and died on the 19th September 1944 (place not known). He came from a family with many veterinarians, including his father James (FRCVS). He arrived in ...

Major-General Sir David Bruce (born 29 May 1855 in Melbourne – died 27 November 1931 in London) was a British pathologist and microbiologist who investigated Malta fever (later called brucellosis in his honour) and African ...