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THE Veterinary Educational Trust announces that Cooper Centenary Fellowships have been awarded to Mr. J. F. A. Sprent and Mr. J. Hobart. The Fellowships were established with the Trust by Messrs. Cooper McDougall and Robertson to assist in the development of veterinary parasitology, and also as a mark of the centenary of that Company. They are normally tenable for one, two or three years, depending upon satisfactory progress in the research undertaken. Mr. Sprent qualified as a veterinary surgeon at the Royal Veterinary College in 1939 and took a B.Sc. degree in zoology with first-class honours at Birkbeck College in 1942. Since then he has been a veterinary research officer in the Colonial Veterinary Service, stationed at Vom, Nigeria, where he has carried out important investigations upon helminth infestation of cattle in that country. He hopes to continue to work upon helminth infestations of domestic animals with particular reference to host resistance and the development of a host immunity. Mr. Hobart took a B.Sc. degree in zoology with first-class honours in 1943 at University College, London. He has been a demonstrator in zoology at the University College of North Wales, Bangor, and has carried out research upon the ecology of adult sheep blowflies in North Wales. His field work has comprised the trapping of flies in the field and the study of the Dipterous succession in small carcases. This work was commenced in collaboration with the Entomological Unit of the Agricultural Research Council. Mr. Hobart proposes to continue his field work in North Wales and to work upon the physiology of insects at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.
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Cooper Centenary Fellowships for Veterinary Parasitology. Nature 155, 694 (1945). https://doi.org/10.1038/155694c0
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