MEMORIAL TO RONALD ROSS.
INTERNATIONAL SCHEME. LONDON, June 22. An eloquent tribute to Sir Ronald Ross is paid in a letter to the Times signed bydistinguished medical men of B/ita-n, France. Belgium, America, and Italy, including the directors of the Pasteur Institutes of Paris and Brussels and the United States Director of Public Health. The letter is signed also by men prominent in other fields than medicine. The writers suggest that, to mark the twenty-fifth anniversary of Sir Ronald Rcss’s discovery of the cure for malaria, a Ronald Ross institute for research in tropical diseases be established in London. To initiate the scheme £50,000 is required, and the signatories appeal for funds, [Sir Ronald Ross, who is 66 years old. took up the study of tropical medicine when he entered the Indian medical ser vice in 1881. In 1887 98 he traced the life history cf malaria parasites with mosquitos, and in 1899 led an expedition to West Africa. He was in charge of malaria work in the war. In 1902 Sir Ronald Ross was awarded the Nobel prize for medicine.]
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Southland Times, Issue 18990, 11 July 1923, Page 7
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