Gareth Davies (b.1935): archives

The following is an interim description which may change when detailed cataloguing takes place in future:

Reports, correspondence, notes, drafts, and reprints on Contagious Bovine Pleuropneumonia, 1956-2001.

Reports on Enzootic Bovine Leucosis, 1987, c.1991.

Reports, correspondence, notes, minutes, agendas, and reprints on Brucellosis, 1965-1976.

Enzootic Bovine Leucosis Survey reports and results, c.1978).

Foot and Mouth disease 2001 Outbreak: Combined Epidemiology Team Reports, May 2001.

Project Preparation Mission: Foot and Mouth Control in Bolivia, June 1995.

Methods Used in the Handling of Bovine Mycoplasma, Gareth Davies, October 1967.

Correspondence, 1955-1969.

Reports, drafts of papers, notes, Literature reviews, lists of publications, conference programmes, minutes, reprints etc. on a variety of subjects, 1956-1983.

1956-2001

2 transfer boxes

Donated to the library at Wellcome Collection by Gareth Davies, May 2014.

Gareth Davies was head of the Epidemiology Unit at the Central Veterinary Laboratory, Weybridge, 1975-1986. He then moved to the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food at Tolworth, before becoming Veterinary Epidemiologist at the Veterinary Unit of the Agriculture Directorate General of the European Commission. He continued to work as a consultant for them after his retirement in 1994. His work with the European Commission included working on tackling Foot and Mouth outbreaks in Italy (1993), Greece (1994) and Bolivia (1995). He was also involved in the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food response to the 2001 outbreak of Foot and Mouth Disease in Britain.

A founding member of the Society for Veterinary Epidemiology and Preventative Medicine, Gareth Davies has a lecture named after him at the Society's annual conference.

This archive also includes material generated by David Brown (1925-2002). Brown studied veterinary medicine at Edinburgh and Cambridge before moving to Kenya to work for the East African Veterinary Research Organisation. After completing his doctorate he moved to Nigeria in 1967 to become head of the Nigerian Veterinary Research Institute. When he returned to England he gave up veterinary work and re-trained to work in the art world, becoming a curator at the Tate in 1975. on his death in 2002 his personal art collection was bequeathed to the British Museum, the Tate, the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, and Southampton City Gallery.

At Wellcome Collection:

GC/253/A/18 is a collection of material relating to Wellcome Witnesses to Twentieth Century Medicine Seminar Volume 18. 'Foot and Mouth Disease: The 1967 Outbreak and its Aftermath' at which Gareth Davies was a contributor.

This collection is currently uncatalogued and cannot be ordered online. Requests to view uncatalogued material are considered on a case by case basis. Please contact collections@wellcomecollection.org for more details.