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GB 0809 Ross - Ross, Col Sir Ronald (1857-1932)
- 74 - Material on Sierra Leone mostly relating to a letter written by William Thomas Prout to the editor of the British Medical Journal on the extermination of mosquitoes in Sierra Leone and the controversy surrounding his claims including a meeting of the Malaria Committee of the Royal Society, correspondence with the Colonial Office and letters from Matthew Logan Taylor who was employed as a research worker in Sierra Leone by the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine

Ref No	GB 0809 Ross/74/14
Level	Item
Title	Letter from Sir Michael Foster, Secretary, Royal Society to Ross
Date	29/5/1903
Description	WT Prout's letter to the Colonial Office which was read to the Malaria Committee of the Royal Society was only received on 25 May and there was no time to notify members. He maintains that , as the documents were confidentially read to the committee, they had not been made public and they were read in connection with a proposal that was put to the Royal Society and the report of the Malaria Committee has been accepted by the Malaria Committee. He will write to the council about Ross' views.
AccessStatus	Open
Language	English

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