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when I called on him September 20th of that year in company with 

 Malcolm E. MacGregor. We found him in a charming apartment at 

 Putney Heath, sitting up and waiting for us. He looked strong and 

 well colored, but his left side was nearly helpless. His speech was a 

 shade thick, but he talked constantly and wanted us to drive with him 

 in the park. He talked of the Ross Institute and wanted us to visit it. 

 He showed us a big cabinet in which he had, systematically filed and 

 indexed, all of the papers relating to his malaria work. He swore 

 about the Italians, sjwke of Grassi as a damned liar, but said that 

 Celli was a good fellow and a gentleman. He spoke of De Kruiff's 

 book, " The Microbe Hunters," with profanity. He talked much 

 about the sale of his cabinet. He seemed nervous, and ran on from 

 one subject to another, forgetting many names. He constantly re- 

 verted to the subject of tea and to the proposed drive and to Grassi 

 and to his cabinet of documents. He gave us each a copy of his latest 

 paper on the Grassi claims. He said he was going down to Gibraltar 

 to visit his son-in-law, and also said that he would like to be invited 

 to the International Congress of Entomology to occur in August, 1928.' 

 He told us that his stroke was not caused by a bursting capillary but 

 by a chalky stoppage of a blood vessel in his brain. He seemed pleased 

 at this. He said that he could see the chalky deposits in some of his 

 veins. On the whole it was a painful experience to see this splendid 

 fellow whom I had known in his prime in 1904, 1907, and again in 

 1912, and with whom I had often corresponded (I wrote a chapter 

 in his first big book on malaria) , under this cloud. 



When Ross left St. Louis early in 1904 he returned to New York 

 and then sailed for Panama where he studied with interest the 

 work of Gorgas in the Canal Zone. The following year (1905) 

 Rubert Boyce, accompanied by Viscount Mountmorris, came to the 

 United States. This was the year of the last New Orleans outbreak 

 of yellow fever. Professor Boyce went down there and assisted as a 

 volunteer in the work carried on so wonderfully by Dr. J. H. White. 

 Subsequently he wrote a very interesting book entitled " Mosquito 

 or Man ? " in the course of which he gives a most admirable account 

 of the New Orleans epidemic, printing the proclamations and notices 

 that were issued in the course of the campaign, and closing his account 

 with these quotable words : " Thus an outbreak which in previous 

 years would have developed into the usual awful epidemic was in a 

 few weeks at a comparatively small cost completely stopped, and that 

 in the face of a dense population, open drains, and a sultry summer." 

 (The italics are mine.) 



^ An invitation was sent to him later, but there was no reply. 



