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Ref NoGB 0809 Ross/138/01/35
LevelItem
TitleLetter from Louis Westernra Sambon to Ross
Date12/11/1909
DescriptionHe is working on the chapter about Italian malaria for Ross' Prevention of Malaria and Ross has annotated this letter 'This article was never forthcoming'. Quotes an Italian writer who suggests that the mosquito carries malaria and disagrees strongly with WHS Jones' theory that malaria contributed to the decline of the Roman Empire, maintaining that it was endemic from earliest times. Asks Ross to lend him WHS Jones' book and some volumes of an Italian periodical
AccessStatusOpen
LanguageEnglish
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