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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
01 - Correspondence relating to the appointment of John William Watson Stephens as demonstrator at the Liverpool School
02 - Copy of letter from Ross and John William Watson Stephens to Alan Hay Milne
03 - Copy of letter from Ross to Alan Hay Milne
04 - Copy of letter from Ross to Lord Stanley
05 - Correspondence regarding the Mary Kingsley medal
06 - Material relating to the New Orleans yellow fever epidemic
07 - Material relating to the appointment of William Thomas Prout to the Liverpool School
08 - Galley proofs of parts of the Annual Report
09 - Material relating to Liverpool School's Annals of Tropical Medicine, edited by Ross
10 - Material relating to the Diploma in Tropical Medicine
11 - Material relating to suggested bureaus of tropical hygiene, malaria and tropical sanitation within the Liverpool School
12 - Letters from Sir Alfred Lewis Jones to Ross relating to the Liverpool School
13 - Correspondence between Ross and William Hesketh Lever regarding Lever becoming Chairman of the Liverpool School
14 - Letter from Alan Hay Milne to Ross
15 - Material relating to books at the University of Liverpool Library
16 - Correspondence regarding the position of staff members and improper advertising
17 - Material on the proposal to lease Streatlam Towers for the Liverpool School and a discussion on accommodation matters
18 - Correspondence relating to the founding of the Dutton Memorial Chair
19 - Material on accommodation problems at the Liverpool School, proposal to institute a Diploma in Tropical Hygiene, staffing matters, Dutton Memorial Chair, and the purchase of a railway season ticket for Ross
20 - Correspondence between Ross and Sir William Hesketh Lever, Chairman, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine including exchange of play scripts
21 - Material on a dinner held for Sir William Hesketh Lever, Chairman, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine and his wife, Lady Lever
22 - Correspondence on Liverpool School business, the majority between Ross and Sir William Hesketh Lever, Chairman, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine
23 - Press cuttings on the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine and general information on tropical disease
24 - Press cuttings on the yellow fever epidemic in New Orleans
25 - Press cuttings on the London School of Tropical Medicine
26 - Material on the London School of Tropical Medicine claiming credit for the Sleeping Sickness Commission of the Royal Society
27 - Correspondence between Ross and Sir Rubert William Boyce, Dean, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine on Liverpool School matters
28 - Material on an article written by Sidney Price James in the Indian Medical Gazette and Ross' response to it
29 - Material on the foundation of the yellow fever bureau by Sir Rubert William Boyce, Dean, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine
30 - Material on the failed publication of the Annals of Tropical Sanitation by the Liverpool School
31 - Material on the reference for William Thomas Prout written by Sir Patrick Manson and the alleged libel against Ross and staff of the Liverpool School
32 - Material on Ross' resignation of his Professorship from the Liverpool School and his acceptance of the position of Lecturer on Malaria at the School
33 - Material on Ross leaving the Liverpool School and his claim for a pension
34 - Correspondence and press cutting on Liverpool Civic Week
35 - Material relating to the finances of the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine
36 - Material relating to Sir Alfred Jones' will and the efforts of Ross to have the money devoted to the founding of an Institute of Tropical Medicine and Sanitation in 1910-1911. Includes material on the proposal to buy Streatlam Towers
37 - Material relating to various matters relating to 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
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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