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Rodd Island

Dyarubbin: Mapping Aboriginal history, culture and stories of the Hawkesbury River, New South Wales

Australian Leather Research Association

Australian Telecommunications and Electronics Research Board

Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation

Multiple Sclerosis Australia

Loir, Adrien

Adrien Loir c1890

Adrien Loir in the laboratory at Rodd Island 1891

Chicken cholera and the rabbits - experiments at Rodd Island. The apparatus and appliances, with portraits of the experimenters 1888

The Rabbit Plague and Anthrax in Australia; M. Pasteur's experiments and remedies for its extermination November 1891

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Research and Development

Rodd Island

Island which sits peacefully in the middle of Iron Cove. During the 1880s it became the centre of a number of remarkable scientific experiments.

Dyarubbin: Mapping Aboriginal history, culture and stories of the Hawkesbury River, New South Wales

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Publicly available, online interactive map created by NSW State government department Spatial Services in 2021 using the results of the Real Secret River: Dyarubbin research project led by Professor Grace Karksens with Aunty Edna Watson, Leanne Watson and Jasmine Seymour, and supported by the State Library of NSW 2018-2019 Coral Thomas Fellowship.

Use the External Link with this record to go directly to the map at Spatial Services.

Australian Leather Research Association

Scientific research organisation for the leather industry.

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Australian Telecommunications and Electronics Research Board

Commonwealth government agency established to improve general radio practices in Australia.

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Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation

Federal government agency, established in 1926, to undertake research and development to benefit the Australian community and economy.

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Multiple Sclerosis Australia

Fund raising organisation to facilitate research, education and treatment of multiple sclerosis.

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Loir, Adrien

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French bacteriologist who conducted experiments on Rodd Island to see whether the chicken cholera bacillus was an effective solution to the rabbit plague. Nephew of Louis Pasteur.

Adrien Loir c1890

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State Library of Queensland

[Negative number: 196575]

Adrien Loir in the laboratory at Rodd Island 1891

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National Library of Australia

[nla.news-page4848115 via Trove]

('The Rabbit Plague and Anthrax in Australia; M. Pasteur's experiments and remedies for its extermination', Illustrated Sydney News, 21 November 1891, p12)

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State Library of New South Wales

[TN83]

(Australian Town and Country Journal, September 22, 1888, p599))

The Rabbit Plague and Anthrax in Australia; M. Pasteur's experiments and remedies for its extermination November 1891

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Contributed By

National Library of Australia

[nla.news-page4848115 via Trove]

('The Rabbit Plague and Anthrax in Australia; M. Pasteur's experiments and remedies for its extermination', Illustrated Sydney News, 21 November 1891, p12)