WILL OF SCIENTIST.
BEQUEST FOR RESEARCH. ASSISTANCE TO STUDENT. (British Official Wireless.) (Received November 21. 5.5 p.m.) A. and N.Z. RUGBY. Nov 0. Under tho terms of the will of the late Professor Adrian Stokes, the famous scientist and pathologist, who died at Lagos when he was investigating yellow fever, there is a bequest of £4OOO to help on the research work in which __he was keenly interested. The money is left to Dr. Geoffrey Rane, ft young student who worked under Dr. Stokes, to assist him in continuing his pathological research work. Professor Adrian Stokes was one of the foremost authorities on tropical diseases. He died in September from yellow fever, contracted while he was on re " search work in Lagos, West Africa. Just prior to his death, ho announced tiia bo had solved the question of how to •ttack vellow fever, and that only carelessness would defeat the complete solution.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19800, 22 November 1927, Page 11
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