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Rodd Island
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.

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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From the collections of the
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

full record »
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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