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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/74/13
Level	Item
Extent	2
Title	Copy of a letter from Ross to Sir Michael Foster, Secretary, Royal Society
Date	28/5/1903
Description	Protests that a letter from WT Prout to the Colonial Office was read to a meeting of the malaria committee of the Royal Society without its appearing on the agenda. He complains that it was of no scientific interest but merely a personal attack on himself, ML Taylor and the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine. He has told the Liverpool School and he withdraws his agreement to the resolution about it which was passed by the malaria committee.
AccessStatus	Open
Language	English

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