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- 1916-1920 (Creation)
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1 large hardback notebook, 79 ff.
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Notes on each individual rabbit (with tab cut to make finding records easy) recording where bought or ancestry, dates of matings, and size of resulting litter. Sex of offspring usually recorded as well as the colour and markings; stamp often used to indicate these. If the rabbit's skin is one of the specimens in the list at f 85r of the first notebook [ONSL/19], this is also recorded.
f. 83v: 'Rabbits at Pyxford, being kept for Bl[ac]k Eng[lish] skins'
f. 84v: 'Rabbits at Cambridge, Autumn 1917'. Notes of 'Matings to be made as soon as possible'
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5 loose sheets found as an enclosure in this notebook, containing notes on bacterial cultures and 'Serum Reactions, Sept 11th 1913', have been catalogued separately as ONSL/21b.
Folio numbering includes these loose sheets.