The Wellcome Veterinary Diaries

Date:
1942-1967
Reference:
WF/M/PB/24
Part of:
Wellcome Foundation Ltd
  • Archives and manuscripts

About this work

Description

Information supplied in the diaries fluctuates year to year.

The 1959-1967 diaries are bound in green and are small in size, 107mm high x 70mm wide.Includes: Information on The Wellcome Foundation Ltd., Therapeutic guide, temperature tables, oestrus and pregnancy table for several types of animal, postal information, useful telephone numbers, astronomical information and times given in Greenwich mean time. Diaries are two days to a page.

The 1942 diary, also bound in green is larger in size than the later editions, (being similar to the Medical Diaries) 165 mm high x 100mm wide. The diary is a week to two pages with more information including 'Wellcome' Sera, Vaccines and Tuberculins, Posological table and Pharmaceutical products, as well as Therapeutic guide, temperature, and oestrus and pregnancy tables.

1946 post war edition, has a small section on Therapeutic guide, addresses and notes page.

Publication/Creation

1942-1967

Physical description

13 items Bound in green with gold tooling, endpapers printed with Wellcome unicorns. Text block machine made paper.

Ownership note

Please see main WF collection description (ref. 'WF').

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