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I have known for many years Prof. Robert Newstead (a dear and 

 very able man), formerly the Entomologist of the Liverpool School 

 of Tropical Medicine, and while visiting him have met most of the 

 workers there, including J. W. W. Stephens and Warrington York. 

 In London, I have known Lt. Col. A. Alcock, formerly head of the 

 London School of Tropical Medicine, for whom I have a great 

 admiration. And I have the same admiration for Dr. (now Sir) 

 Andrew Balfour, formerly of the Wellcome Research Laboratories 

 and now head of the London School. Sir Andrew is a very remark- 

 able man-;— an investigator of the highest rank, an admirable adminis- 

 trator, a delightful public speaker and a very charming writer. It 

 is not very well known among his friends that he is the Andrew 

 Balfour who has written several mighty good novels. I accused him 

 of this authorship once, and he replied that he had in former years, 

 in his leisure moments, written some stories. I think it must have been 

 good practice for him, for his public addresses and his occasional 

 essays are models. One has just reached me. It is entitled " Health 

 and Empire " and is a printing of " The Hastings Popular Lecture " 

 delivered in the great hall of the British Medical Association on 

 March 12, 1930. 



Malcolm E. MacGregor, at one time a Carnegie Student in this 

 country, and who married a charming American wife over here, has 

 been connected with the Wellcome Laboratories since his return to 

 England, and I count him one of my best friends. He did an admirable 

 piece of work in his malaria investigation in Mauritius, and was one 

 of the first writers to direct attention to the physical and chemical 

 condition of mosquito breeding waters. Of course I know Maj. 

 E. E. Austen and F. W. Edwards, distinguished dipterists of the 

 British Museum of Natural History. Major Austen's study of the 

 tsetse flies has been of great help in the African work against the 

 sleeping sickness ; and F. W. Edwards, with Dr. H. G. Dyar of 

 Washington, has helped to keep the scientific world informed and 

 sane on the subject of mosquito taxonomy. 



Then too, I had the pleasure of knowing well Sir Arthur Shipley, 

 one of the most delightful men I have met, keenly and charmingly 

 humorous and of great al)ility as an investigator, writer and lecturer. 

 As head of Christ College in Cambridge, his beautiful chambers were 

 the evening resort of the choice spirits at the Darwin Centenary in 

 1908. During the World War, Shipley came to the United States at 

 the head of a delegation of Englishmen for the avowed purpose of 

 addressing representative audiences in principal cities concerning 

 European conditions and the I'jiglish attitude. They came to Wash- 



