Sir Ronald Ross's Archives for Sale: no Monetary Reward London, Oct. 2.
Colonel Sir Ronald. Ross, the famous authority on malaria and Director-in-Chief of the Ross Institute and Hospital for Tropical Diseases, explaining why he is advertising the sale of his archives connected with malarth and mos quitees, said that this was not due to financial necessity but he simply desired to realize them for the benefit of his children. The collection was not at the Ross Institute because it was not suitable for that place, His minimum price for the archives was £2,000. pele Sir Ronald Ross stated that the British Goversiment never paid him penny in recognition of his histone discovery in 1897 that the anopheles mosquito was the carrier of malaria, but it was true' that. they had subscribed very handsomely for the Institute founded as a memorial to himself. He recalled that Dr, Jenner was awarded £30,- 000 for his discovery of vaccination.
Sir Ronald expressed his unabated belief that the best way to combat malaria was to exterminate mosquitoes.
He mentioned that from now on he will be assisted at the Institute by Sir Malcolm Watson of Kiang, F.MS.—Reuter,
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