author
V. T. (Vickers T.) Atkinson
d. 1891
A 19th-century veterinarian and public official, he is chiefly remembered for work on animal health in the United States and for contributing to a long-lived government reference on cattle diseases. Though little biographical detail survives, his name remains attached to practical veterinary writing from the period.
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Special report on diseases of cattle
by United States. Bureau of Animal Industry, V. T. (Vickers T.) Atkinson, Dr. (William) Dickson, A. (Adolph) Eichhorn, Richard W. (Richard West) Hickman, James Law, (Dr.) (William Herbert) Lowe, C. Dwight (Charles Dwight) Marsh, John R. (John Robbins) Mohler, A. J. (Alexander James) Murray, Leonard Pearson, Brayton Howard Ransom, M. R. (Milton R.) Trumbower, Dr. (Benjamin Tilghman) Woodward
About the author
V. T. Atkinson, identified in library and catalog records as Vickers Thomas Atkinson, was a veterinarian active in the late 1800s. Available records indicate that he died in 1891, and reference sources describe him as an American state veterinarian.
He is best known today as one of the contributors to Special Report on Diseases of Cattle, a U.S. government work associated with the Bureau of Animal Industry. The book continued to be reissued after his death, which is why his name still appears in later editions and modern catalogs.
Because surviving online sources are limited, only a small outline of his life can be confirmed with confidence. Even so, his connection to early veterinary public health and livestock disease reporting gives him a lasting place in the history of agricultural and animal-care writing.