Hursey, Brian

Reports, memoranda and other documents relating to tsetse fly control, trypanosomiasis and related issues in southern and western Africa. Most of these papers date from before Hursey's career in the field but they also include one or two items authored by Hursey himself. The material includes:

H. E. Hornby, "Animal trypanosomiases in eastern Africa, 1949"

"Notes for field studies of tsetse flies in East Africa": an aide memoire for field workers, c. 1940s

D. F. Lovemore et al, "The control of the tsetse fly Glossina Morsitans Westw. by means of a residual insecticide applied with pneumatic knapsack sprayers to resting and refuge sites within the Gokwe-Gatooma-Lomagundi (South) sector (Gokwe-Sanyati and Gatooma operations areas) of the Zambesi front - west in Rhodesia during 1968"

J. Ford, "The influence of tsetse flies on the distribution of African cattle", c. 1958

B. S. Hursey, department of Veterinary Services, Kabate, Kenya, "Observations on factors affecting emergence of Glossina Pallidipes Austen., and parasitisation of this species by Thyridanthrax Abruptus Loew.", c. 1968

Memorandum by the District Commissioner, Nyansa Province, on sleeping-sickness in central Nyanza, February 1965

"The incidence of cattle trypanosomiasis in areas adjoining the South bugosa fly-belt: results of the thick film and mice examination", November 1965

"Tsetse control in Zimbabwe", c. 1968

G. F. Cockbill, "A second review of the tsetse and trypanosomiasis position in Southern Rhodesia, 1964"

Notes of an "Informal meeting of technicians from the Republic of South Africa, Rhodesia and Moçambique to consider the preliminary results of the 1973 campaign at Massangena, Changalimue, Banamana and Muabsa"

Report on animal trypanosomiasis in Kenya, c. 1960, including the following sections: a) the problem of Animal Trypanosomiasis as it existed in the earliest days of its congnisance in Kenya; b) measures carried out in Kenya against Animal Trypanosomiasis from 1920 onwards, with an appraisal of their value; c) the problem of Animal Trypanosomiasis today, the organisation responsible for control, and the research envisaged on the subject in Kenya

Memorandum by B. S. Hursey, Glossinologist in charge Chipinga-Sabi/Lundi on "Construction of an all steel game fence, parallel to the border in the Sabi-Lundi area", January 1973

H. E. Hornby, "Observations regarding carrying capacity of veld", c. 1942

H. E. Hornby, "Recollections of Northern Rhodesia before the First World War", 1954

1940s-1970s

1 file (in 2 parts)

These unpublished papers were found amongst the published items acquired by the Library and accessioned as an archive collection in April 2012.

Brian Hursey spent most of his career in the field of tsetse fly control by ground and aerial spraying and bait techniques. He worked in various parts of Africa including Kenya and Zimbabwe.

Hursey studied zoology at the University of Wales, Swansea. As a student he had taken an interest in tsetse flies and, upon graduation in 1964, went to work in Kenya as a Tsetse Officer. In 1966 he moved to Zimbabwe where he worked for the Department of Veterinary Services, Tsetse and Trypanosomiasis Control Branch. In 1988 he became Senior Animal Health Officer in the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation, continuing to specialise in tsetse and trypanosomiasis control. He retired in 2000 and died in 2008.

After his death books, reports and other printed materials relating to trypanosomiasis and tsetse research from the private collection of Brian Hursey were transferred by his family to Glasgow University Archive Services. In April 2012 the Wellcome Library acquired this collection via Glasgow University as a donation from the Hursey family.