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GB 0809 Ross - Ross, Col Sir Ronald (1857-1932)
01 - Medals awarded to Sir Ronald Ross
02 - Photographs
03 - Letters, orders and records of service relating to Ross' career in the Indian Medical Service
04 - Correspondence, applications and orders relating to Ross' research during his posts in India, from May 1895 to September 1897, and about an official inquiry into malaria
05 - Official applications for appointments, especially for malaria research made in 1897-1898, and orders and letters.
06 - Material on Ross' posting in Kherwara to relieve DC Johnstone
07 - Letters relating to invitations to provide papers for the Indian Medical Congress and the International Congress of Hygiene and Demography (8th) Budapest
08 - Book of poetry: Edgar or the new Pygmalion and the Judgement of Tithonus by Ross
09 - Periodical: Scientific memoirs by medical officers of the army of India, edited by Sir Benjamin Simpson, Part III.
10 - Notebook kept during the Chin Lushai Expedition of 1889-1890 in Burma
11 - Articles by Ross on fever, malaria and the chest measurement of recruits
12 - Letters from Patrick Manson to Ross on Ross' research into the transmission of malaria by mosquitoes
13 - Letters from Ross to Patrick Manson on Ross' research into the transmission of malaria by mosquitoes
14 - Letters from Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran to Ross on Ross' research into the transmission of malaria by mosquitoes
15 - Copies of letters from Ross to Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran on Ross' research into the transmission of malaria by mosquitoes
16 - Letters from George Henry Falkiner Nuttall to Ross on Nuttall's research into the part played by insects in the spread of disease
17 - Copies of letters from Ross to George Henry Falkiner Nuttall on Ross' research into kala-azar, and one letter from Nuttall to Ross
18 - Photographs and letters relating to Ross writing his memoirs
19 - Publication: The mode of infection in malaria: three more Ross-Manson letters, 1898 by Sir Ronald Ross
20 - Letters from Ross to Manson including information on the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine's expedition to Sierra Leone
21 - Material relating to Ross' service in India
22 - Letter and article by Andrew Buchanan on mosquitoes and malaria sent to Patrick Manson
23 - Correspondence on malaria and mosquitoes
24 - Letters from Patrick Manson to Ross on the Ross-Manson correspondence
25 - Material relating to the Ross-Manson correspondence including letters to a solicitors firm on the ownership of the correspondence, and letters with the London School of Tropical Medicine
26 - Letter from Percy Alexander Macmahon, General Secretary, British Association to Ross on a paper: Verb-functions
27 - Copies of the Ross-Manson correspondence, extracts from Lord Lister's correspondence and a pamphlet: Two Ross-Manson letters
28 - Diary and notes of researches on malaria (with letters interleaved) India, Book 1
29 - Diary and notes of researchers on malaria and kala-azar India, Book 2 including interleaved correspondence, telegrams, patient notes, receipts and reports.
30 - Reports and publications on sanitation by Ross
31 - Letters from patients in Bangalore to Ross
32 - Newspaper cuttings on sanitation in India
33 - Pamphlet: A catechism of vaccination for the use of vaccinators and others by Francis Joseph, revised by Ronald Ross
34 - Reports on the outbreak of cholera in the civil and military station of Bangalore
35 - Correspondence and notes relating to Ross' work in India
36 - Correspondence and manuscript reports on the cholera outbreak at Bangalore
37 - Letters and reports by S Amritaraj relating to sanitation and health in Bangalore
38 - Letter from SB Dhavle, Under Secretary to the Government of Bihar and Orissa to Ross in his role as Editor of the Annals of Tropical Sanitation, University of Liverpool and list showing names of officers and local bodies willing to subscribe to the Annals
39 - Published and unpublished papers by Ross on medical subjects written in India 1890 to 1899
40 - Photographs illustrating leucocytes, blood-plates etc under the microscope, done in Secunderabad in 1893 and used in Ross' Parkes Memorial Prize Essay in 1894
41 - Reports on the infection of birds with proteosoma by the bite of mosquitoes by Ross
42 - Reports on the cultivation of proteosoma, Labbe, in grey mosquitoes by Ross
43 - Cuttings and articles from medical journals by various authors and draft manuscripts on malaria, the Indian Medical Service and Indian Sanitation by Ross
44 - Material relating to Edwin Lawrie and malaria
45 - Manuscripts by Ross and correspondence
46 - Publications by Ross and Sir Patrick Manson
47 - Articles and letters in publications, mostly by Ross and Sir Patrick Manson
48 - Letters to Ross on malaria
49 - Journals and publications containing articles mostly on malaria by Ross and Sir Patrick Manson
50 - Correspondence on a visit by Sir Patrick Manson to Henry George Plimmer and J Bancroft's work
51 - Italian publications on malaria by authors including Dr Amico Bignami, Giovanni Battista Grassi, Giuseppe Bastianelli, and Antonio Dionisi.
52 - Correspondence between Dr Thomas Edmondston Charles and Ross and material relating to the Italians research into malaria
53 - Material on the Italian piracy of Ross' work including letters from Robert Koch, Patrick Manson, Louis Westenra Sambon, E Almquist, Charles Wilberforce Daniels, and Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran, articles and manuscripts
54 - Publications on malaria by Italians authors including Dr Amico Bignami, Giovanni Battista Grassi and Giuseppe Bastianelli
55 - Draft letters by Ross on GB Grassi and Giovanni Noe's work on filariasis
56 - Material on Ross' dispute with Giovanni Battista Grassi including correspondence, draft manuscripts and articles published in the Italian periodical Il Policlinico
57 - Material on Ross' dispute with Giovanni Battista Grassi including correspondence with James Cantlie, Editor of the Journal of Tropical Medicine and the Editor of the British Medical Journal, manuscripts, unpublished articles and publications
58 - Correspondence relating to the matter of the removal of Ross' portrait at the Wellcome Medical Historical Museum
59 - Press cuttings on Ross' inaugural lecture for the opening of the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine and a report of a fund raising dinner for the London School of Tropical Medicine
60 - Material relating to Ross' post at the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine
61 - Correspondence relating to Ross's appointment to and resignation from the Jenner Institute of Preventive Medicine
62 - Correspondence and material about Ross' re-appointment to the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine
63 - Life-history of the parasites of malaria by Ross in Nature, No.15553, vol 60.
64 - Letters, agreements with publishers and accounts for the book Mosquito Brigades by Ross
65 - Sur les travaux de la mission organisee par l'Ecole de medecine tropicale de Liverpool, pour l'etude de paludisme a Sierra Leone et sur une instruction put la prevention du paludisme by Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran
66 - Notebook of the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine's expedition to Sierra Leone to investigate malaria interleaved with correspondence with the School, Matthew Nathan - the Acting Governor of Sierra Leone, Mary Kingsley and William Henry Williams Strachan - Principal Medical Officer Lagos and a map of Freetown
67 - Reports, manuscripts and press cuttings on the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine's expedition to Sierra Leone to investigate malaria
68 - Publications on malaria and the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine's expedition to Sierra Leone by various authors
69 - Correspondence between Ross and Lord Lister, and related material
70 - Manuscripts, published articles and letters on malaria and mosquitoes
71 - Correspondence between Ross and Sir Alfred Lewis Jones, Chairman, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine and Alfred William Winterslow Dale, Principal, University College, Liverpool on Ross' duties and responsibilities in the School and on the rights to Ross' publications
72 - Articles and press cuttings relating to malaria and mosquitoes, and related topics
73 - Material on the publication of 'Malarial Fever, its cause, prevention and treatment' by Ross
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
75 - Material on the Gambia expedition of 1901
76 - Gold Coast (now Ghana) Expedition 1901-1902
77 - Material on the dispute over the discovery of the human trypanosome
78 - Material on Sir William MacGregor, Governor of Lagos, Nigeria
79 - Material on the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine's expedition to Sierra Leone
80 - Material relating to James Coats Junior's gift of money to the Tropical Sanitation Fund, mainly to fund Ross' work on mosquito control in Sierra Leone
81 - Material on the administration of the Tropical Sanitation Fund
82 - Material on malaria expedition to Sierra Leone 1901-1902
83 - Reports, publications and course material on health issues such as malaria, sanitation and hygiene in Lagos, Nigeria
84 - Research into arsenic in the hair of patients with beriberi
85 - Material on Ross' trip to Ismailia, Egypt in September 1902 to investigate malaria
86 - Award of the Nobel Prize for Medicine to Ross in 1902
87 - Letters of congratulation to Ross on being appointed a CB (Companion of the Bath)
88 - Visit to St Louis and Panama September - October 1904
89 - Material on Ross' visit to Greece to advise on malaria eradication in June 1906
90 - Material on Ross' expedition to Mauritius to investigate and eradicate malaria in 1907-1908
91 - Correspondence about a proposed Malaria Society
92 - Material relating to Ross being an external examiner on the Diploma in Tropical Medicine & Hygiene at Cambridge University
93 - Material on Ross' application for Chair of Protozoology at the University of London
94 - A British Nobel Prize - letter to the editor of the British Medical Journal, written by Ross but published anonymously 8 December 1906
95 - Correspondence regarding Ross' application for a Lectureship in Tropical Medicine at Edinburgh University
96 - Material on a visit by Ross to Brussels to treat Baron Dhannis
97 - Material on a visit to Stockholm to attend the tenth anniversary celebration of the Nobel prize and to be appointed an Honorary Doctor of Medicine from the Karolinksa Institutet in December 1910
98 - Expedition to Europe including visits to the New Centenillo Silver and Lead Mines in Spain and to the Lake Copais Company in Greece to advise on malaria eradication in 1913
99 - Material on the opening of Institut fur Schiffs und Tropenkrankheiten zu Hamburg (Institute of Tropical Medicine, Hamburg, Germany) and Ross' attendance at the opening ceremony
100 - Letters from Noel van Raalte to Ross asking advice on mosquito control on Brownsea Island, Dorset
101 - Material on Ross' visit to Cyprus to advise on malaria eradication in 1913
102 - Manuscripts and publications by Ross and others; related correspondence and press cuttings
103 - Material relating to India including the Conference on malaria at Nagpur 1902, Bombay Medical Congress 1909 and the anti-malaria campaign at Mian Mir
104 - Correspondence with and about EMG Parlato-Hopkins
105 - Correspondence with friends after the publication of his Memoirs including George William Patrick Dennys, KN Appiah relating to his work with Ross on malaria research and Andrew Lang Browne
106 - Material on malaria in Mian Mir, India
107 - Material relating to Waldemar Mordecai Wolff Haffkine and the Mulkowal incident
108 - Material on lectures given by Ross
109 - Material relating to Ross' research work while at the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine
110 - Material on cryotherapy research (use of a cold chamber) at the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine and King's College Hospital, London
111 - Letters and press cuttings from Sir Edwin Durning-Lawrence to Ross on his theory on Bacon writing Shakespeare
112 - Material on research projects conducted in the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine
113 - Material relating to Ross' work at the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine
114 - Material on Parliamentary Actions for malaria returns by Members of Parliament
115 - Material on a proposal for a British prize for medical research
116 - Report by Ross to the Board of Education on the financial position of the London School of Tropical Medicine
117 - Material on Ross' claim for reward for his scientific discovery, includes material on Edward Jenner's reward for the discovery of vaccination and correspondence with others who he encourages to petition the government for monetary reward
118 - Material on the dismissal of Richard P Cowl from the University of Bristol and the proposed investigation into the administration of the University
119 - Material on Ross' campaign to improve conditions and pay of those working on medical research, including a pension scheme for tropical medicine workers
120 - Correspondence, mostly between Ross and William Martin, on changes to the Patent Laws to encourage scientific research
121 - Material on Ross' campaign to receive monetary reward for his discovery of the mosquito transmission of malaria
122 - Material on a proposed monument to Ross and WC Gorgas at Panama to commemorate the medical men who made the canal possible
123 - Letter and photograph from JE Pincher on John Holt, African Ship Owner and Merchant
124 - Letter from Ernesto Cacace to Ross
125 - Correspondence on Ross's application for the governorship of Western Australia
126 - Correspondence on a proposed visit to Australia by Ross
127 - Material on letters by Ross and others to the Times on various subjects including the death of William Crawford Gorgas, a proposed malaria bureau and Ross' election as a Foreign Associate of the Academie de Medecine, Paris
128 - Press cuttings and letters relating to the death of Sir Patrick Manson on 9 April 1922, including Ross' criticism of the information in some of the obituaries relating to Manson's role in the discovery of the mosquito transmission of malaria
129 - Material including obituaries and correspondence relating to the death of Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran
130 - Material on a visit to Paris for the commemorative celebration of the death of Edward Jenner at the Academie de Medecine, Institut Superior de Vaccine on 23 January 1923
131 - Lectures delivered by Ross to various institutions and organisations
132 - Letters to the press and occasional publications and papers by Ross, mainly on scientific subjects but also on poetry, prohibition and women's suffrage
133 - Material relating to Ross' war service including correspondence on his role with the Territorial Forces at the 1st Western General Hospital in Liverpool
134 - Material on Ross' role as Consulting Physician in Tropical Diseases to the hospitals for Indian troops in England (Brighton, Bournemouth, Brockenhurst and Netley)
135 - Material on Ross' work during the First World War including material on anti-malaria measures in Salonika, Ross' appointment as Consultant for Malaria in Southern England, his promotion to Colonel, demobilisation and an article on malaria for the Official Medical History of the War
136 - Material on Ross' pay conditions during the war
137 - Material on Ross' service during the First World War in the Mediterranean Expeditionary Force
138 - Material on the publishing of the book The Prevention of Malaria (1910) by Ross
139 - Material on the publication of Memoirs by Ross
140 - Material relating to Sir Malcolm Watson, Cyril Strickland and malaria control in the Federated Malay States
141 - Letters and press cuttings on sleeping sickness
142 - Letters and press cuttings regarding the discovery and research of Leishmania Donovani
143 - Sir Patrick Manson's Malaria chart
144 - Correspondence between Ross and various individuals on malaria and related subjects
145 - Letters and correspondence with various individuals including George Henry Falkiner Nuttall, Sir William MacGregor, Sir Patrick Manson, Walter Gawan King and Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran
146 - Letters and press cuttings relating to Ross and on a variety of subjects, arranged by year
01 - 1899 letters
02 - 1900 letters
03 - 1901 letters
04 - 1902 letters
05 - 1903 letters and press cuttings
06 - 1904 letters and press cuttings
07 - 1905 letters and press cuttings
08 - 1906 letters and press cuttings
09 - 1907 letters and press cuttings
10 - 1908 letters and press cuttings
11 - 1909 letters and press cuttings
12 - 1910 letters and press cuttings
13 - 1911 letters and press cuttings
01 - Press cutting: A paragraph announcing the publication of Prevention of Malaria in the Times of India Illustrated
02 - Press cutting: Life stories of endeavour No.IV Major Ronald Ross in Ideas
03 - Press cutting: Keep the milk pure, and death-rate will be reduced in the Evening Telegraph and Post
04 - Press cutting: The pursuit of knowledge 1. Mosquitoes and man by Professor R A Gregory in School World
05 - Press cutting: Death of Professor Sir Rubert Boyce. Scientist gives his life for humanity in Liverpool Journal of Commerce
06 - Press cutting: Sir Rubert Boyce in Liverpool Journal of Commerce
07 - Press cutting: Honoured by the King in the Liverpool Daily Post
08 - Press cutting: Major Ronald Ross, who has received a K.C.B. in the coronation honours list in recognition of his malaria researches in the Tropics in Parsi
09 - Press cutting: The romance of malaria in Indian Planters' Gazette
10 - Press cutting: The dangerous mosquito in the Times of Ceylon, Weekly edition
11 - Press cutting: Article on wasps by The Chiel in Wandsworth Boro' News
12 - Press cutting: Sir Ronald Ross as witness. An amusing law-suit in the Egyptian Gazette
13 - Press cutting: "Thought transference" in Times
14 - Press cutting: The malarial microbe. Man and the disease causing agent in Parsi
15 - Press cutting: Purse-pride in the Daily Chronicle
16 - Press cutting: Paragraph commenting on Ross's suggestion that members of Parliament not wanting their salaries should donate them to the medical research in the Nottingham Guardian
17 - Press cutting: Paragraph commenting on Ross's suggestion that members of Parliament not wanting their salaries should donate them to the medical research in the Oldham Evening Chronicle
18 - Press cutting: The claims of research, letter from WJ Simpson to the Editor of the Times
19 - Press cutting: How blood -sucking pests "bite" in Sanitary Record and Journal of Sanitary and Municipal Engineering
20 - Press cutting: Mind and matter in Engineering
21 - Press cutting: The problem of malaria in the Times of India Illustrated Weekly
22 - Press cutting: Mosquitoes and destiny. Did Greece and Rome decay through malarial fever? In the Daily Sketch
23 - Press cutting: The ten greatest man living in British Medical Journal
24 - Press cutting: Civic engineering and medical studies in Surveyor and Municipal and County Engineer
25 - Press cutting: Medical missions exhibition. Opening ceremony by Sir R Ross in the Manchester Courier
26 - Press cutting: Medical missions. Sir Donald (sic) Ross at the Manchester exhibition in the Manchester Guardian
27 - Press cutting: Medical missions. Seventh day of Manchester exhibition in Manchester Courier
28 - Press cutting: Martyrs to Science. Died for their patients. Victims of the x-ray in the Sydney Evening News
29 - Lecture list calendar 1910-1911, London Institution
30 - Letter from Sir Cecil Arthur Spring-Rice, British Minister to Sweden
31 - Letter from Andrew Francis Dobson
32 - Letter from Adelaide Lane
33 - Letter from Adelaide Lane
34 - Letter from Andrew Francis Dobson
35 - Letter from Adelaide Lane
36 - Letter from Sir Cavendish Boyle
37 - Letter from Sir Charles Alfred Cripps
38 - Letter from Ruth J Cripps
39 - Telegram from Edward Halford Ross
40 - Telegram from Edward Halford Ross
41 - Telegram from Rosa Bessie Ross
42 - Seating plan of a banquet at Liverpool Town Hall
43 - Letter from Robert Harrison, Assistant Secretary, Royal Society
44 - Copy of a letter from Ross to Robert Harrison, Assistant Secretary, Royal Society
45 - Letter from Louis Souchon
46 - Letter from E B Holt
47 - Letter from John Holt
48 - Letter from Katherine McGusty
49 - Invitation card to a dinner for the Society of Medical Officers of Health on 7th November 1911
50 - Letter from R C Danglish
51 - Programme for the Medical Missions Exhibition, Society for the Propagation of the Gospel
52 - Letter from John Holt
53 - Letter from Edward Rimbault Dibden - Curator, Walker Art Gallery
54 - Letter from Arthur Mudge Branfoot
55 - Letter from Seved Ribbing, Professor of Medicine, Lund University
56 - Postcard from Alfred Dashwood
57 - Letter from Sven Hedin
58 - Postcard from Euen Salomonsen & Carl Pul Salomonsen
59 - Postcard from William Henry Williams Strachan
14 - 1912 letters and press cuttings
15 - 1913 letters and press cuttings
16 - 1914 letters and press cuttings
17 - 1915 letters and press cuttings
18 - 1916 letters and press cuttings
19 - 1917 letters and press cuttings
20 - 1918 letters and press cuttings
21 - 1919 letters and press cuttings
22 - 1920 letters and press cuttings
23 - 1921 letters and press cuttings
24 - 1922 letters and press cuttings
25 - 1923 letters and press cuttings
26 - Letters and press cuttings
27 - 1925 letters and press cuttings
28 - 1926 letters and press cuttings
29 - 1927 letters and press cuttings
30 - 1928 letters and press cuttings
147 - Material relating to the Advisory Committee of the Tropical Diseases Research Fund, the Colonial Office, malaria returns and correspondence
148 - Correspondence between Ross and the Editors of periodicals on Ross' contributions
149 - Material relating to malaria treatment in hospitals in London, Oxford, Aldershot and Guildford
150 - Lectures, addresses and some letters to the press from 1921 to 1925
151 - Material relating to Ross' publications including Prevention of Malaria
152 - Material on the question of malaria priority and the dispute between Ross and Giovanni Battista Grassi
153 - Material on a trip to Russia by Ross as part of a British delegation in 1912
154 - Publications by Ross
155 - Publications on Ross and related subjects
156 - Material including correspondence, list of achievements, notes and sketches for Ross' autobiography Memoirs
157 - Diaries
158 - A book of pencil and watercolour sketches of the Isle of Wight, with a few of Ireland and some figures copied from Retsch's outlines of Faust
159 - Material on Ross' inventions including ear plugs and a clinical automatic thermometer
160 - Set of notebooks and diaries
161 - Material on the establishment of the Ross Institute and Hospital for Tropical Diseases
162 - Honours and awards presented to Ross
163 - Material on Ross' work on statistics and mathematics including correspondence, publications and mathematical workings
164 - Publications by Ross
166 - Photocopy of a letter from Ross to George Miller Sternburg, Chief of the Medical Staff, United States Army
167 - Letters on malaria eradication by Ross, written in Mauritius during his visit there in 1908
168 - Letters and correspondence on a number of subjects
169 - Correspondence relating to the disposition of the Ross papers at the Ross Institute
170 - Letters to Ross and correspondence on a variety of subjects
171 - Copy of a catalogue of the Ross Archives as compiled by Ross, list of objects and letter to the Times
172 - Copies of correspondence between Ross and Sir Patrick Manson
173 - Material relating to malaria and World War One
174 - Scientific Artefacts
175 - Press cuttings following the death of Sir Ronald Ross 16th September, 1932, aged 75.
176 - Publications by Ross
177 - Miscellaneous papers
178 - Material including correspondence, manuscripts, research papers, publications and related papers, on a variety of topics
179 - Journal articles and other papers written by Ross, includes material on malaria, sleeping sickness and mathematics.
180 - Scientific Publications by Ross
181 - Lists of Sir Ronald Ross' publications, medals and honours.
182 - Sir Ronald Ross' Archive
183 - Pamphlets celebrating the fiftieth anniversary of Sir Ronald Ross' discovery
184 - Facsimiles of Sir Ronald Ross Archive
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