The introduction of myxomatosis outweighed the contribution by recent scientific research in any other field in Australia, said Sir lan Clunies Ross, chairman of the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, speaking in Melbourne recently. Its spread in Australia, he said, was luck far beyond that which normally came to people endowed with so many great advantages. Before myxomatosis a rabbit population of 600,000,000 to 700,000,000 had been eating enough subjugated the Australian continent.
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Press, Volume XC, Issue 27500, 6 November 1954, Page 5
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