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MS 007 – GILRUTH, John Anderson (1871-1937)
Veterinary Scientist

Gilruth was Professor of Veterinary Pathology and Director of the Veterinary Research Institute, University of Melbourne from 1908. He was Administrator of the Northern Territory 1912-20 and later Chief of the Division of Animal Health, CSIR.


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Series 1. Biographical Material

  1. Autobiographical essay to 1889

  2. List of undergraduate awards

  3. Miscellaneous correspondence

  4. Press cuttings about his mother (2)

Series 2. Photographs

  1. Photographs of Dr Gilruth 1890-1935

  2. Photographs of Parkville Veterinary Science Building, Melbourne

Series 3. Writings by Dr Gilruth

  1. Presidential address to ANZAAS, Section L, 1937

  2. Extract from Annual Report of NZ Department of Agriculture, 1898

  3. "Notes on blood parasites". Proc. Roy. Soc. Victoria, 23 (New Series), Pt. 1, 1910

Series 4. Material on Gilruth's veterinary work

  1. Sir Ian Clunies Ross' Macrossan Lectures, 21-22 September 1954

  2. NZ Journal of Agriculture, November 1952

  3. Press cuttings

Series 5. Obituary notices

Pastoral Review     12 March 1937
Weekly Scotsman                                    13 March 1937
Taranaki Daily News                               9 July 1938
"Noted Scots Scientist"                           6 December 1938
"The Press" (letter from
A M Patterson)                                        10 March 1937
CSIR Journal                                           May 1937
Proceedings of the Royal
Society of Edinburgh                              Session 1936-37

Series 6

Gilruth Memorial issue of the Australian Veterinary Journal, April and June 1937, in which are pasted photographs, press cuttings, journal articles, letters. These include:

Photos Authmithie (Scotland) - the wee schoolie

Wellington Laboratory 1893-1902

Second Veterinary School build at Trentham Upper Hutt

First School, Parkville, Melbourne

Obituary, The Herald, 4 March 1937

Series 7. Professor of Veterinary Pathology, Melbourne

  1. Letters and telegrams to Dr Gilruth on his appointment as Professor of Veterinary Pathology in Melbourne, 1908

  2. Some official correspondence related to Dr Gilruth's work in NZ and his resignation


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Series 8. Material relating to Dr Gilruth's term as Administrator of the Northern Territory 1912-20
  1. Letter to Gilruth from W Baldwin Spencer 4 March 1912 (6pp)

  2. Reminiscences of Darwin, 1912-1920, by H E Carey, Dr Gilruth's Private Secretary during this period, dated 18 May 1937 (7pp of typescript)

  3. Photograph

  4. Press cuttings:

    1. A picture of Darwin – almost a Soviet – cutting. 13 November 1920

    2. New Zealand Free Lance 28 December 1912

    3. Farmer and Grazier 20 February 1912 – Administrator
Series 9. Gilruth Plains
  1. Correspondence of Sir David Rivett and Mrs Gilruth, 1937-47

  2. Photographic and other material on the CSIRO National Field Station at Gilruth Plains
Series 10. Longstaff Portrait

Mrs J A Gilruth's correspondence on the Longstaff portrait and note on the Lambert drawing

Series 11. Gilruth Memorial Prize

Journal article, speeches and Mrs Gilruth's correspondence connected with the Gilruth Memorial Prize

Series 12. Mrs J A Gilruth

Miscellaneous correspondence

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