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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
  - 09 - Letters from Matthew Logan Taylor to Ross

Ref No	GB 0809 Ross/74/09/08
Level	Item
Title	Letter
Date	15/6/1903
Description	He has written to AH Milne advising him to take no notice of WT Prout's letter in the British Medical Journal (Ross/74/03) and adds that he thinks Prout is trying to start a 'paper war' and that it would 'be more galling to him to take no notice of his writings'. He has an appointment with J Coats Junior that afternoon.
AccessStatus	Open
Language	English

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