On the 16th of October, 3865, lie married, in the city of 

 Havana, Miss Adela Shine, a native of the Island of Trinidad, 

 and a gifted woman who has faithfully and tenderly taken an 

 active interest in all his endeavors. They have founded a 

 family much esteemed in the social circles of Havana. 



Dr. Finlay travelled once more in 1869 to visit for a few 

 months the former home of his wife in the Island of Trinidad, 

 and again in 1875 he visited New York in search of 

 professional advice for Mrs. Finlay. 



In 1881 he went to Washington representing the colonial 

 Government of Cuba at the International Sanitary 

 Conference. He chose this occasion to make public for the first 

 time his views on the transmission of yellow fever by an 

 intermediary agent. 



At the breaking out of the Spanish American war, Dr. 

 Finlay, who was then 65 years old, went to Washington to 

 offer his services to the American Government, and insisted 

 with his friend Dr. Sternberg, then Surgeon-General of the 

 Army, to be sent to the field. He took part in the campaign 

 around Santiago where he did not fail to speak, as he ever did 

 when the opportunity offered, of the benefits that might be 

 obtained if his theories were accepted. 



On his return to Havana, in 1898, he brought his views to 

 the attention of the Army medical officers, the Government, 

 and the medical Press in the United States. He wrote at the 

 time a complete plan of campaign against the j^ellow fever on 

 the same lines which were subsequently followed with the 

 brilliant results now familiar to all of us. 



The writer of these notes can never forget the impression 

 made upon him by the manner of Dr. Finlay in receiving the 

 Conmiissions that came to Cuba, taking advantage of the new 

 order of things, to study Tropical diseases. Full of generous 

 enthusiasm he would explain his views and show his copious 

 notes, his records, his experiments, his apparatus, his mos- 

 quitos, and would offer himself to assist in any kind of 

 experiments that might be undertaken. 



Drs. H. E. Durham and Walter Myers, commissioned by 

 the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine for the study of 

 yellow fever in Brazil, stopped for a few days in Havana on 

 their way to that country. Dr. Durham in one of his reports 

 states: "It is incontestable that Dr. Charles Finlay of 

 Havana, was the first to undertake direct experiments to 

 substantiate his ideas of the part played by the mosquito in 

 the transmission of yellow fever. His method was to feed 



