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  • ‘Saving the Lives of Our Dogs’

    25/10/2013

    Eighty years ago, a special supplement to The Field magazine announced that the dreaded dog disease of distemper had been conquered. The conquest was the result of a vaccine developed by researchers at the Medical Research Council (MRC) and commercialised… Continue reading

  • You’ve Goat to be Kidding

    29/07/2013

    Best known for their cantankerous personalities and trouser nibbling traits, it’s not particularly surprising that there haven’t been too many positively memorable goats throughout history.  Putting aside the goat that hit the headlines for marrying a man in Sudan, another… Continue reading

  • Henry’s Cats

    07/12/2011

    In 1936, readers of the Liverpool Echo were intrigued to read of the death of a London millionaire who apparently chose to live in a Portland Place hotel while maintaining a palatial Regents park residence for the sole occupancy of… Continue reading

  • Object of the Month, August 2011: Human Skeleton and young Rhinoceros

    11/08/2011

      Of the many joys that accompany a stroll around the Wellcome Library’s stores, an unexpected encounter with a rhinoceros must rank as one of the more novel. The beast in question is Clara, an Indian Rhino who became in… Continue reading

  • Digitising the archive of geneticist Hans Grüneberg

    30/03/2011

      The Wellcome Library is host to numerous scientists who are famed for discovering important aspects of genetics, many of whose papers are being digitised as part of a major on-going project. While Arthur Mourant was the so-called ‘father of… Continue reading

  • New on the shelves: Strange Attractor

    22/03/2011

    The latest edition of the anthology series Strange Attractor, has now joined copies of the previous three volumes on the shelves of the Wellcome Library. All four editions feature essays on a number of historical, cultural and esoteric themes. The… Continue reading

  • At the Military Academy

    27/02/2011

    On first impression, this photograph appears to be of a military figure. The epauletted tunic, the shuttered blinds… perhaps a pre-1914 army planner, taking a break from planning his country’s defence from a foreign force? The photograph was indeed taken… Continue reading

  • Here be tigers

    21/01/2011

    In this oleograph (Wellcome Library no. 26596i) from Bombay, the apsara (nymph) Menakā attempts to seduce the yogi Viswāmitra. She succeeds, and a daughter Sakuntalā was born of their union. We might notice that, in this work by the Indian… Continue reading

  • Main man for mutant mice

    01/10/2010

    Archives and Manuscripts is pleased to announce that a detailed catalogue of the papers of the geneticist Professor Hans Grüneberg FRS (1907-1982) is now available online. Although a rudimentary boxlisting of this collection has been available for some considerable time,… Continue reading

  • National Insect Week

    24/06/2010

    Go to the ant, thou sluggard; consider her ways (Proverbs 6:6) Over a million species described – and maybe another six or seven million out there awaiting description. Insects account for maybe half of all living species – and when… Continue reading