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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/74/16
Level	Item
Title	Copy of a letter from Ross to Sir Michael Foster, Secretary, Royal Society
Date	30/5/1903
Description	Regrets that the matter of WT Prout's letter should be 'so hurriedly and irregularly disposed of' despite protest from himself, RW Boyce and CS Sherrington. Until he is given an opportunity to reply he will refuse to have anything to do with a commission of investigation as the work in Sierra Leone was privately organised.
AccessStatus	Open
Language	English

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