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1916). The present excellent teachers and investigators, William A. 

 Riley of the University of Minnesota, Robert Matheson of Cornell 

 University, and W. B. Herms of the University of California, are 

 warm friends of mine. I know Doctor Cort of Johns Hopkins, and 

 wish that I knew him better. W. V. King, in charge of the impor- 

 tant malaria work at Mound, Louisiana, of course, is a colleague and 

 associate. 



I have been almost equally fortunate in my association with English 

 investigators. Sir Ronald Ross (then Major Ross) came to the 

 United States in December, 1903, to attend the meeting of the Ameri- 

 can Association for the Advancement of Science held in December 

 ^893-January 1894. He came as an invited guest, and read a paper 

 dealing largely with the mathematics of malaria, which aroused much 

 interest. We became friends at once, and I visited him in Liverpool 

 at the School of Tropical Medicine two years later. During this 

 visit we talked at length concerning mosquito work, and Prof. I^ubert 

 Boyce (afterwards Sir Rubert) discussed with us the advisability of 

 recommending Dr. James Carroll, of the United States Army Yellow 

 Fever Commission, as a candidate for the next Nobel Prize. I think 

 Walter Reed would undoubtedly have received the prize had he lived, 

 and, since Carroll was the only surviving American member of the 

 Commission, it was thought that possibly the trustees of the Nobel 

 fund should be urged to award the prize to him. It was decided, 

 however, that Reed was without question the great moving spirit in 

 the investigation, and that Carroll was only one of three willing sub- 

 ordinates, and that, although he was connected with the great dis- 

 covery, he was not responsible for it. The intimacy of this discus- 

 sion and the charming courtesy of Ross and Boyce, who in fact went 

 with me to the steamer and stood on the dock waving farewells as the 

 great vessel moved off, are delightful memories. In 19 12, attending 

 the 250th anniversary of the Royal Society as a delegate of the Wash- 

 ington Academy of Sciences, I met Ross again. In the intervening 

 years he had been knighted and had received many other honors, but 

 these had not altered his frank, open, friendly disposition or his 

 delightful courtesy. 



From that time on, Sir Ronald was much in the limelight, and, 

 unfortunately, felt obliged to do much controversial writing. He 

 fought very vigorously the claims of the Italian school and vigorously 

 defended his own rights in his great discovery. Plowever, the Ross 

 Gate was dedicated in Calcutta, the Ross Institute near London was 

 founded, and his name was known and honored all over the world. 

 In 1927 he had a stroke, from which he had measurably recovered 



