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Sir Patrick Manson 



Sir Patrick Manson, F.R.S., K.C.M.G., M.D., LL.D. ; late physician 

 and medical adviser to the Colonial Office; distinguished as a pioneer 

 investigator and teacher ; author of a standard work on Tropical Medi- 

 cine; the discoverer of the transmission of filariasis by mosquities; 

 the man who suggested to Ronald Ross his investigations of the trans- 

 mission of malaria by mosquitoes. 



