'For the public benefit': Livestock statistics and expertise in the late nineteenthcentury Cape Colony, 1850-19001

Science and society in southern Africa

Volumn , Issue , 2017, Pages 100-115

  Nell, Dawn ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

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