MANUSCRIPT COLLECTION

Begins with a printed translation of Pasteur's paper of which the original was in La Nature, 16e année, No. 773, mars 1888, pp. 262-267 – 'Upon the Destruction of Rabbits in Australia and New Zealand' addressed to the agents-general of the se countries and asking permission to compete for the reward of £25,000 offered by the Government of NSW for a method of eliminating the rabbit pest; the original of this paper in French; thereafter a variety of news-cuttings more or less in chronological order from the date of Loir's arrival at Adelaide, 28 March 1888, on the Orient Line RMS Cuzco with Drs Germont and Hinds until his return to Paris with Dr Germont on the same ship leaving Sydney 21 April 1889 after a disagreement with the NSW Government over the terms of completing the rabbit experiments in the field and some unpleasantness over alleged interference in their correspondence with Pasteur by the Colonial Secretary; cuttings March 1888 to April 1889 with a few personal oddments which cover the following: the occupation and fitting out of Rodd Island in Long Cove, Sydney Harbour, between Five Dock and Balmain as an isolation and quarantine area for the chicken cholera experiments with a rabbit colony in artificial burrows by Loir and Germont for the Intercolonial Rabbit Commission; the experiments conducted there; the report of the Commission and much correspondence in the press about various aspects of the rabbit plague ion Australia; the identification of Cumberland disease of sheep with anthrax; the repetition of Pasteur's classic experiment of 1881 at Pouilly-le-Fort by MM. Loir and Germont in a paddock of Wyoming station near Old Junee in September/October 1888 in the presence of the Anthrax Board appointed by the Government of NSW; the report of the Anthrax Board to the Legislative Assembly of NSW, 15 November 1888; the experiments and demonstrations at the stock quarantine station, Indoorapilly, Queensland, on the preparation of lymph and the inoculation of cattle against pleuro-pneumonia by MM. Germont and Loir, December 1888-March 1889, at the invitation of the Pleuro-pneumonia Board of Queensland; details of the proceedings in the Legislative Council of NSW, 11 April 1889, on the alleged opening and detention by the Colonial Secretary of letters and cablegrams from Pasteur to MM. Germont and Loir.

Volume II [Not held by Basser Library]: Begins with the plan of Rodd Island with details of the laboratory, living accommodation, and experimental enclosure for the release of fowl cholera in the artificial rabbit colony; views (original photographs and derived engravings) of the island and its buildings; extensive newspaper correspondence and argument about the value of protective inoculation against anthrax of Cumberland disease (Dr Oscar Katz, A. A. Devlin etc.) at the time of Adrien Loir's return in  June 1890 as Pasteur's representative with equipment to develop a supply of the anthrax ‘vaccine'; illustration of Loir's incubator; Loir's re-occupation of Rodd Island and its laboratory facilities by agreement with the Government of NSW for the purpose of producing Pasteur's anthrax vaccine; Rodd Island becomes the ‘Pasteur Institute of Australia' under Loir's direction; Loir and Stanley demonstrate the susceptibility of the kangaroo to anthrax at Rodd Island, March 1891; Loir investigates and reports on a ‘spontaneous disease among Australian rabbits', 1891; various papers and articles by Loir in (e.g.) Ann. Inst Pasteur, Proc. Roy. Soc., NSW, Pastoralists' Review, etc.; correspondence, various, relating to all the above and related subjects in  Australian papers of the time e.g. Australasian, Queenslander, Sydney Morning Herald, Daily Telegraph, Sydney Mail, and many country papers, etc.

Newspaper cuttings, photographs and articles on animal diseases in Australia (largely concerning anthrax and rabbits), including pamphlet 'Pasteur's Vaccine of Anthrax in Australia'; review of Loir's book La Microbiologie en Australie; 'L'Institut Pasteur en Australie' La Nature July 9 1892; 'Les Lapins en Australie' Revue Scientifique April 1893, La Nature August 1893; 'Les Maladies contagieuses de l'homme et des animaux en Australie' Revue Générale des Sciences pures et appliquées January 1894; 'La vaccination charbonneuse en Australie' Revue Scientifique; 'Action de la bacteridie charbonneuse sur les marsupiaux'.

Newspaper cuttings and articles on Loir's period in Tunisia in 1894 including work on winegrowing and winemaking, rabies and avian diphtheria and terms as director of the Laboratoire oenologique de Tunis and the Institut Pasteur de Tunis.

Further newspaper cuttings from Loir's visit to Australia, 1892.