The early History of the Library of the Royal Veterinary College

The history of the library of the Royal Veterinary College in London from 1791 to 1846. 

E Catton

Moving the Wellcome Collection to the Science Museum

The Wellcome collection was accumulated by Sir Henry Wellcome of medical and veterinary equipment, ephemera, surgical instruments and printed materials. In the 1970s it was donated to the Science Museum, where a new department and galleries were set up. The cataloguing was a major undertaking.

David Wright

The Development of Veterinary Education in Nigeria

Veterinary Services in Nigeria were established in the 1930s, using British vets. Then numbers were inadequate to deal with the responsibilities of animal disease control, so local training schools were set up in Kano and Vom to train veterinary assistants, able to carry out field duties, such as vaccinations. The first students qualified in 1944. A more advanced diploma was taught at the University of Nigeria in Nsukka. A veterinary degree course was taught at the Vom school, with the first RCVS registered vets qualifying in 1947. The University of Ibadan and Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria offered university degree courses in Veterinary Medicine, starting in 1963. The Veterinary Council of Nigeria was set up in 1952, to oversee the legal basis for veterinary services.

H I Field

Brogården in Skara, Sweden, Cradle of Swedish Veterinary Medicine

A history of the Veterinary institute in Skara in Sweden, founded in 1775 by Peter Hernquist. Teaching of a veterinary course continued until 1886, when it became a school of farriery and an animal hospital, following competition from a veterinary School in Stokholm. A veterinary Museum was opened in Skara in 1975.