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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/74/12
Level	Item
Title	Copy of a letter from Ross to Alan Hay Milne, Secretary, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine
Date	28/5/1903
Description	At a meeting of the Malaria Committee of the Royal Society a letter from WT Prout to the Colonial Office was read, although it did not appear on the agenda and it proved to be an attack on the Liverpool School together with Ross and ML Taylor. He encloses a copy of the letter of protest which he has written to Sir M Foster (Ross/74/13) and suggest that the School should ask the Colonial Office for copies of Prout's letter and Sir CA King-Harman's on the subject
AccessStatus	Open
Language	English
Related Material	Draft Ross/74/11

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