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Rodd Island
Cereal Rust Laboratory
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
HCL Anderson c1894-1900
The Rabbit Plague and Anthrax in Australia; M. Pasteur's experiments and remedies for its extermination November 1891

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Agricultural Science

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.

Cereal Rust Laboratory

Research laboratory involved in cereal rust research through disease control by resistance breeding.

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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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Contributed By
State Library of Queensland
[Negative number: 196575]

Adrien Loir in the laboratory at Rodd Island 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)

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From the collections of the
State Library of New South Wales
[TN83]
(Australian Town and Country Journal, September 22, 1888, p599))

HCL Anderson c1894-1900

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By
John Hubert Newman
From the collections of the
State Library of New South Wales
[a1528163 / P1/2096]
(Mitchell Library)

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)

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