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Frederick Smythe

Animal Companions/ Animal Rights/ Animals

“Bob”, a London wolfhound mongrel, escapes from a famous vivisector’s clutches!

Re-introducing “Bob”. 88 years after he achieved fame in human circles. This postcard is a much admired & much loved item in our Ernest Bell Library archives. In November of 1926 Ernest Basil Verney FRS (22 August 1894 – 19 August 1967) was about to experiment on “Bob” at University College London – …..somehow they forget to mention anything about this in their history page! “Bob’s” story ……was told in the London U.K.  House of…

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