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*[http://www.currentscience.ac.in/Downloads/article_id_006_11_0576_0576_0.pdf "Development of Veterinary Work In India"] by P M N. Informative short article held on website of ''Current Science'', from ''Current Science'' Volume 6, Issue 11, May 1938, page 576. The article outlines the history of veterinary work in India from 1799 up to the 1930s and mentions the men who played a major role in its expansion, and is a summary of an address by Colonel Olver to the Indian Science Congress Silver Jubilee meeting in 1938.
:[https://museumofmilitarymedicine.org.uk/about/corps-history/history-of-the-royal-army-veterinary-corps/ History of the Royal Army Veterinary Corps] museumofmilitarymedicine.org.uk
*[http://krishikosh.egranth.ac.in/handle/1/2027794 ''Materia Medica Veterinaria Indica Part-1''] by J.H. Steel and T.J. Symonds 1885. Pdf download, KrishiKosh: Indian Agricultural Research Institute.
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==External links==
:[http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v141/n3567/abs/141480b0.html Another summary of "Veterinary Science in India" by Sir Arthur Olver] from ''Nature'' 141, 480-481 (12 March 1938).
:The address by Sir Arthur Olver in his presidential address before the Section of Veterinary Research is in ''Proceedings Of The Twenty-fifth Indian Science Congress Part-ii 1938'', page 315 which is available online, refer Historical books online, below.
*An Army Veterinary Department was established in 1884 (a very brief mention in [http://www.tribuneindia.com/2003/20031220/nation.htm#15 The Tribune India Online]). A Civil Veterinary Department was established from 1889. It seems that it was the Civil Veterinary Department that later became known as the Indian Veterinary Service or I.V.S. In 1923 a Commission into the Civil Services decided that there would be no further recruitment into the IVS and that in future the provincial governments would control and make appointments [http://books.google.com.au/books?id=3ugDAAAAMBAJ&pg=PT69 Pratiyogita Darpan/January 2007/1150] Google Books
*[[South Asia Archive & Library Group]] host a Powerpoint presentation given at their conference by Christopher Gill called [https://web.archive.org/web/20140323024953/http://www.bl.uk:80/reshelp/bldept/apac/saalg/veterinarynls.ppt "Veterinary Material in the National Library of Scotland’s India Papers Collection - A previously neglected resource for historical research"], now an archived website. This link leads to a download which you may need to locate in your downloads folder.
*[http://www.indiapicks.com/stamps/Forces/1611_Remount_Vet.htm Army Remount Corps] indiapicks.com
*[https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1864482/?page=1 "A Short History of the Royal Army Veterinary Corps"] by Brigadier J. Clabby ''Proceedings of the Royal Society of Medicine'' 1976 Feb; 69(2): 93–96. ncbi.nlm.nih.gov. [https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/003591577606900204 Alternative link] journals.sagepub.com.
:The author of this paper also wrote ''The History of the Royal Army Veterinary Corps, 1919-1961'' by J. Clabby 1963, available online if you have [https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/002072901 Hathi Trust University access].
===Historical books online===
*[http://digital.nls.uk/indiapapers/browse/pageturner.cfm?id=75136762 Veterinary books online] from the National Library of Scotland’s website [http://digital.nls.uk/indiapapers/index.html Medical History of British India] (India Papers collection)
*[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=nApeAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA1 ''A practical memoir on the history and treatment of the diseases of the Camel'' …] by W Gilchrist, Assistant Surgeon, Pub. Catt. Depot, Hoonsoor 1843 Google Books
*[https://archive.org/stream/cu31924024080446#page/n393/mode/2up "Selection and Treatment of Elephants"] page 365 ''The Highlands of Central India : notes on their forests and wild tribes, natural history, and sports'' by Captain J Forsyth, Bengal Staff Corps. 1919, first published 1871 Archive.org. The author was formerly Assistant Conservator of Forests, Central India.
:[https://archive.org/details/cu31924000918486 ''A manual of the diseases of the elephant and of his management and uses''] by John Henry Steel 1885 Archive.org
:[http://archive.org/stream/manualofdiseases00steerich#page/n5/mode/2up ''A manual of the diseases of the camel and of his management and uses''] by John Henry Steel 1890 Archive.org
:[https://dl.mospace.umsystem.edu//mu/islandora/object/mu:109954/#page/1/mode/2up ''Notes on elephants and their care''] by the late Mr W Hepburn. 2nd Impression 1919 (first published 1918? or 1913?) Rangoon. Click to a separate digital file for inserts. The author worked as Veterinary Surgeon to the BBTC Ltd (Bombay Burmah Trading Corporation). Digital Library University of Missouri. [https://archive.org/details/elephants-care-images/mode/2up Archive.org mirror version].
*[https://archive.org/details/b2499067x ''A description of the Imperial Bacteriological Laboratory, Muktesar : its work and products''] by Major J D E Holmes. 1913 Archive.org. Investigation of the diseases of stock in India.
*[http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100003075169.0x000002 ''Camel Corps Training. Provisional. 1913''] London, HMSO 1913. British Library Digital Collection. With illustrations, which may be rotated if required.Also available [https://archive.org/details/camel-corps-training Archive.org]*[http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100022541314.0x000002 ''Pigeon Service Manual (Royal Air Force)''] Air Ministry publication HMSO 1919. British Library Digital Collection.Also available [https://archive.org/details/pigeonservicemanual-raf Archive.org]*''History of the Great War Based on Official Documents'' [https://wellcomecollection.org/works/txemf8zp ''Veterinary Services''] edited by Sir L.J. Blenkinsop and J.W. Rainey HMSO 1925, catalogue link to file. [https://wellcomecollection.org/works/txemf8zp/items File] wellcomecollection.org. Also available [https://archive.org/details/veterinary-services-1925/page/n5/mode/2up Archive.org]
*[https://archive.org/details/cu31924000361455 ''Army Veterinary Service in War''] by Major-General Sir John Moore AVS 1921 Archive.org
**[https://archive.org/stream/cu31924000361455#page/n187/mode/2up "Chapter XI Camels"] page 149
*[https://archive.org/details/ArnoldLeeseOutOfStep ''Out of Step: Events in the Two Lives of an Anti-Jewish Camel-Doctor''] by Arnold Spencer Leese. 1951 Archive.org. Born 1878, he worked in India c 1906-1912 for the Indian Civil Veterinary Department investigating camel diseases for the Indian Government , including brief periods at Muktesar Imperial Laboratory, (situated 50km from [[Naini Tal]]). However, most of the time was spent in field work in “the most empty parts” of North West India. He also worked with Silledar Camel Corps. In the late 1920s Leese became a British Fascist anti Jewish politician. His camel books are
**[https://archive.org/details/tips-camels/page/n9/mode/2up ''"Tips" on Camels for Veterinary Surgeons on Active Service''] by A.S. Leese 1918. Archive.org.
** [https://archive.org/details/treatiseonehumpedcamel/page/n7/mode/2up ''A Treatise on the One-Humped Camel in Health and in Disease'' ] by A S Leese 1927. [https://books.google.com.au/books/about/A_Treatise_on_the_One_humped_Camel_in_He.html?id=_iBDAAAAIAAJ Searchable, but not viewable Google Books]. The illustrations and chapters are described [https://web.archive.org/web/20161205060446details/https:treatiseonehumpedcamel/page/www.vialibri.netn9/552display_imode/year_1927_0_8393372up Contents] Archive.html here]org. There were also two supplementspublished. This book together with the ''Second Supplement'' 1943 is available at the [[British Library]], together with the ''Second Supplement'' 1943.
*[https://archive.org/details/ElephantLore ''The Elephant Lore of the Hindus''] Translated from the original Sanskrit by Franklin Edgerton 1931 Archive.org.
* ''The Indian Journal Of Veterinary Science And Animal Husbandry'' Vol. 1, Part. 2 1931. [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.22826 Archive.org mirror version], originally from Digital Library of India. More editions of this ''Journal'' are available online from the [http://digital.nls.uk/indiapapers/browse/pageturner.cfm?id=75225417 National Library of Scotland’s website], refer above.
