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THE Wellcome Foundation has acquired Ely Grange Estate, Frant, Sussex, for the purpose of extending the veterinary research now carried on at the Wellcome Physiological Research Laboratories, Beckenham, Kent. The need for accommodation where experiments can be carried out on farm animals has been felt for some time. The estate will be known as the Wellcome Veterinary Research Station and the resident veterinary surgeon will be Mr. S. L. Hignett, who will be responsible to Dr. R. F. Mont-gomerie, veterinary research director at the Wellcome Physiological Research Laboratories, where veterinary research, particularly on the laboratory side, will be continued. The full development of the Station at Frant will be delayed until after the War, as the mansion, which will be converted eventually into laboratories, is requisitioned by the Government; but the extensive and modern farm buildings will be occupied and used at once. A start has been made by the acquisition of a herd of pedigree Ayrshire cattle. In addition to the main purpose of the Station, there will be accommodation for the breeding of laboratory animals on a large scale. It is hoped to establish a number of pure lines for this purpose and to do work on genetics in connexion with the breeding of these animals.
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Wellcome Veterinary Research Station. Nature 152, 595 (1943). https://doi.org/10.1038/152595a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/152595a0